20210421 NSW Standing Stones to Tenterfield

20210421 We woke to a 1 degree bloody freezing morning, thank god we have a diesel heater, we meet a couple who came in late yesterday afternoon who didn't have a heater at all, stuff that. Des decided to go back to Glen Innes and find the Australian Standing Rocks, as they are called, not Stonehenge as I thought so I set google map for the site and within 10 minutes good old Google guided us in the correct direction.

The Stones were created in 1991/92 and the stones commemorate all Celtic people who helped pioneer Australia. The Stones acknowledge the contribution to Australian culture made by people from the Celtic nations of Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias and Galicia.

Look! is that a little leprechaun roaming the grounds.😏

The Ancient Celts were farming people who lived across Europe and the British Isles around 2600 years ago and raised stones as calendars to mark the change of seasons to help indicate when they should sow and harvest. The memorial excist of 24 stones, 3 meters high, and is arranged as a calendar based on Ring Brodgar (a Neolithic henge and stone circle) in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Jamie, come to me, he obviously can't get through.

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Excalibur Sword

Legend has it that as a boy, King Arthur alone was able to draw the sword out of a stone which it had be magically fixed, but another story suggest that it was given to Arthur Lady of the Lark and that when the king lay wounded after a battle, he ordered the faithful Sir Bedivere to go into the water and throw the sword into it, an arm rose to catch it, brandished Excalibur three times and then, disappeared

The Solar Noon, is when the sun is at its highest point in the sky each day. The Sun casts its shortest shadow when it is at its highest point of the day. We will use the length of a shadow to figure out how high the Sun is above the horizon.

Yaa, I finally got to to see the Standing Stones now to add the Celtic festival to my bucket list. Each year Glen Innes hold the only Celtic themed festival in Australia to recognise different Celtic Nations, their are twenty different Clans and representatives who turn out in force to hold their annual ceremonies.
We pass through Dundee and onto Deepwater looking for a camp site along the way to Tenterfield and I did see one on an old deserted road but too late for Des to pull up so we ended up in the Apex ground on the side of the road before Tenterfield.

I did manage a flyby shot of Deepwater and it doesn't look much but the town has a history of it's own with beautiful historic buildings the historic railway station, antiques building, an old theater and the old bank building along the main highway which has been converted to a bnb.

The country side out here certainly takes on a different appeal as I manage a fly by shot of the beautiful surroundings.

There could be a ten minute delay as we pass the New England Highway Upgrade valued at $40 million and will consist of a 320-metre long bridge, wider lanes in each direction and widened road shoulders.

I uploaded a photo of the construction site just 35ks before we enter Tenterfield.

And this is what the finial stage will look like, cutting out all the bends in the road.

Getting Close to Home