6/17 On to Calperum Station

Here's images from our trip from Canberra to Calperum Station in the Bookmark Biosphere Reserve. An hour and a half outside Canberra, we stopped at Dog on the Tuckerbox, which is a place and monument dedicated to 19th century pioneers. The story is that a dog stood by his dead master's tucker box (lunch box) until death. Further into the trip we had to gorge ourselves with fruit. Apparently one of the rituals of traveling westward in Australia is getting rid — one way or another — of all fruit due to the man-eating fruit flies. After being in coastal field locations thus far, the flat, dry plains of Hay en route to Calperum presented a familiar environment to us Land Arts folks and an indication of inspiring environs ahead. More pics.