“Mulga” is a colloquial word used to define the Australian bush, the Australian Outback or the area outside urban Australia. Since European settlement Australia’s “bush telegraph” or “mulga wires” was renown for passing on information and stories between towns, homesteads and individuals. With the aid of this newfangled digital technology our blog Mulga Wires continues this story telling tradition.
Our focus will be the broad topic of cycling tours providing information and sharing biking stories from a variety of sources and periods in time including the current activities of Mulga Bicycle Tours.
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06 November 2020
“I aspire, I achieve.”
This is the inscription on The Junior Farmers Memorial in Valour Park at Watson. The memorial recognises the sacrifices of young farmers who died in service to Australia.
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06 November 2020
One of the many café stops of our tour - @threemillsbakery The well maintained gardens make this a very attractive place to pause and chat.
The sculpture is part of Canberra Airport’s “Art in the Parks” and is unsurprisingly called “Paper Plane” by Jerko Starcevic.
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06 November 2020
Mt Pleasant is one of the lesser visited lookouts in Canberra and is the site of The Royal Australian Artillery Memorial.
We are now looking back at Dairy Farmers Hill @nationalarboretumcanberra, at the other end of the lake, where we stood yesterday. By taking in both lookouts you get marvellous views of Lake Burley Griffin, the Parliamentary Triangle and the city centre of Canberra.
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06 November 2020
“Griffins” A mural by @christopherpaultoth
This mural of Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin can be found on the side of the new Woolstore at Kingsborough Village @kingsboroughcbr. Together the Griffins won the international competition to design Canberra in 1912.
The mural’s location is significant as it is located on the corner of The Causeway and Cunningham Streets in Kingston, two streets planned by the Griffins over a century before the artwork was installed.
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06 November 2020
Lake Burley Griffin, Commonwealth Place, Parkes.
Gears and Beers social cycling group have stopped to look at “Widow” a sculpture by S.A Adair included in Contour 556 @contour556 which is Canberra's biennial public art festival.
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06 November 2020
The Australian National University has turned a section of University Avenue into an outdoor art gallery called Exhibition Avenue @KambriANU
This image by Murray Fredericks was part of the WHERE I STAND exhibition and was part of Fredericks’ Salt Project (2003 - 2019) created at Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), South Australia.
Geers and Beers social cycling group.
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06 November 2020
We think @ouranu is overlooked by visitors to Canberra so we always take our bicycle tour groups through the campus of the Australian National University and we always stay longer than we expect.
This sculpture by Wolfgang Buttress is called UNA.
Buttress worked with ANU astrophysicist Dr. Daniel Bayliss to map the 9,100 stars that we can see with the naked eye from Earth and then cut them as perforations into this reflective stainless steel sphere. Inside the sphere another 2 metre diameter sphere mirror is hidden. Our second photo shows that by looking through one of the stars you can see a microcosm of our night sky. Go and have a look.
Gears and Beers social cycling group.
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06 November 2020
View from Dairy Farmers Hill @nationalarboretumcanberra looking over Lake Burley Griffin to the city centre of Canberra. Gears and Beers social cycling group.
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Geers and Beers social cycling group in front of @visit_australian_parliament.
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Last week we hosted the Gears and Beers social cycling group from the Central Coast for a three-day bicycle tour around Canberra. Day 1 was mostly #cyclinginrain but we all enjoyed ourselves.
This was our first bike tour in 11 months due to the impact of bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic. It was great to be showing people Australia again.
These polished stainless steel cones by #bertflugelman are in the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Australia. #nationalgalleryaus
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