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The Whispering Wall and Goldfields

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The Whispering Wall, known as the Barossa Reservoir, is about an hour's drive from Adelaide, near the town of Williamstown.  The reservoir was built between 1899 and 1903 and has incredible acoustic properties which allows sound to travel from one side to the other.  If you stand at one end and whisper into the wall, the person at the other end can hear the words clearly, so you can imagine that children, and even adults, enjoy whispering sweet nothings to each other! We have visited here quite a few times as it is a favourite place to take the grandchildren and it's not far from home.  There are picnic tables and nice grassed areas for children to play and if you're lucky you might see some kangaroos and emus.    Capacity is  4.4 gigalitres (one gigalitre is one billion litres), which would fill 2,200 Olympic swimming pools. The dam wall is 450 feet from one end to the other The dam is more than 10 metres thick

Mosaic Monday

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Adelaide Bungalows Many bungalows in Adelaide are known as Californian bungalows because they are generally built in brick with timber trim.  Some suburbs of Adelaide have many bungalows which were mainly built in the 1920's.  I grew up in a Californian bungalow which was demolished in 1960 and a group of apartments built on the very large block of land.  When my parents sold their bungalow they had no idea that so many apartments would be built on the land, and I think they would not have sold if they had realised that their lovely old house would be demolished.  I have so many good memories of playing in the garden and we even fashioned a playhouse in the very large cypress hedge which went all the way down the side between the neighbours house, and which my dad used to cut by hand every few months.  My daughter and her family live in a lovely bungalow now and I think they are such a beautiful style of house but they do need a lot of maintenance, and many of th

Sunday Selections

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S unday Selections  was originally brought to us by  Kim,  of  Frogpondsrock,  as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to  Cie  who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. The meme was then continued by River at  Drifting through life .  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle. The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me (Elephant's Child). https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrjccg2T8IN_RIqqhncaCA_r3gRjpjQd6i_goA7NoObmiAizmqvFQY_jUE-ibx-bmCRDr3fIYayCEkUnwzr0KmGNAXBj2PeB3DuuSotJOzJLKwcJ5S0WRXKK1gZagpevHudn6TaouPVk/s400/sunday+selections.jpg My theme this week is Close to Home Sunset from our yard My new raised bed veggie garden planted in May A hard to photograph Eastern Spinebill in our garden