Up reasonably early this morning - 6:00am. I ducked up the road to the Cosmos Centre to take a few photos of the place. There was a lot of “Salvation Jane” out in flower around the buildings and I wanted to catch it with the morning light. However, as I found out, I’d have to wait at least till about 10am before the flowers were illuminated nicely. I didn’t hang around that long. Back to the Motel to wash the bug-guts off the bike.

On the way out of town I caught a sign to a “Historical Site”. I took the next right and started riding down some dirt roads looking for it. Before long I came across a farm house. Realising I’m probably in the wrong place, and on someone’s private property, I turned around and went back to the highway to start again. I started following some little red arrows that may be indicating the way, however after 6km’s of dirt two wheel tracks I turned around and went back to the highway. I rode back to the sign and see it’s pointing to site itself. A couple of white columns in the grass on the right side of the road. I don’t get off the bike to read the sign. I’ve had enough of this particular historic site by this time.

A further couple of KM’s up the road is a water hole on the side of the road that was recommended to me as a photographic point of interest. I stopped in and spent about 20mins walking around taking snaps. It was a nice spot, but people need to learn to take their rubbish with them.

Next stop is Morven. I’ve been here before visiting friends so I stopped in town for a quick reminisce. Just out of town to the south is Tregole National Park. This park is dedicated to protect the Ooline tree. The Ooline is a relic of rainforest that covered Australia in the past. It has managed to adapt to the drying out of the country. Ooline Park is another area set aside for these trees. You can find Ooline Park near Womalilla just West of Mitchell.

I was intending to find the artesian spa at Mitchell but I couldn’t. The one local I found to ask couldn’t tell me. They were traveling through and hadn’t heard of it. I gave up after driving around town looking for the Information centre and not finding it either. I headed toward Roma.

The road to Roma was pretty much the same as most of the roads I’ve traveled on so far this trip. The next couple of days I’ll be spending with friends of mine in Roma.