{"id":4438,"date":"2021-05-10T01:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2022-01-30T02:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T02:27:57","slug":"skymirror-at-sea-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/skymirror-at-sea-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Lake and Skymirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a recent trip  to Melbourne I decided to go the long way &#8212; along the <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtfactory.tumblr.com\/post\/650751873294417920\/samalleehighwaystones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mallee Highyway<\/a> to Ouyen and then along the Calder Highway to Castlemaine. I camped overnight at Walpeup on the Mallee Highway and  then at Castlemaine before driving onto Sunshine in Melbourne.    This round about way of travelling  was designed to provide  me with an opportunity to  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sauer-thompson\/51169533914\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photograph <\/a>in   the  Victorian mallee.  I wanted to kick start work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/2021\/02\/02\/review-of-mallee-routes-2019-photobook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">next Mallee Routes photobook.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By swagging overnight at the delightful  Walpeup community campground    I was able to photograph the  local silo in the early morning fog. The fog did not last long.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupsilo-2-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupsilo-2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupsilo-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupsilo-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupsilo-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupsilo-2-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>silo, Walpeup, Mallee Highway<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reading Eric Rolls&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angusrobertson.com.au\/books\/a-million-wild-acres-eric-rolls\/p\/9780868064642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest<\/a>  at the time.  This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffithreview.com\/articles\/encounters-with-amnesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> nature writing<\/a> is about ecological history of the Pilliga forest in NSW since settlement and Rolls demonstrates the damage done by clearing and settler farming practices.    His thesis is that forests \u2013 which we so readily and romantically see as primeval \u2013 could often be the creation of  the  act of colonial white  settlement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roll&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/ceh.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Environmental_History_in_Australasia_2004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> environmental history <\/a> argument is that the Aboriginal people who\u2019d been maintaining open pastures (grassland)  across that country through use of fire in the grassy woodlands  They were  violently forced off their land. In their absence, the over the 200 years since European settlement&nbsp;\u2014 a dense, wild forest grew where once, in Aboriginal times, there had been open&nbsp;wooded country that attracted the pastoralist\u2019s eye.&nbsp;The result was the Pilliga Scrub. This forest wasn\u2019t ancient. It was  a creation of European settlement..  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicWalpeupbush.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>remnant  bushland, Walpeup, Victoria <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to  walk around the mallee nature trail in Walpeup in the early morning before driving onto Ouyen  to linkup to the Calder Highway. It was small area of &#8220;wild&#8221; nature.   I  had thought of the mallee scrub as remnant bushland  due to  the colonial and capitalist ethos, which views nature solely as a resource. As I walked around the trail  with the sun behind me this marginal  landscape   evoked a sense of loss.  What little remained was squeezed in-between agricultural fields that embodied a history that celebrated human control over an unruly Australian land.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Mallee Highway part of the trip and then onto Sea Lake was a reconnecting with the past; a picking up from the earlier part of the Mallee Routes project. The  closed state borders due to Covid-19 meant that I could only travel and photograph in the<a href=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/2021\/04\/06\/mantung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> South Australia mallee <\/a>for most of 2020.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sea Lake in north western Victoria was a suprise: the local silo had been painted and  was part of the Victorian <a href=\"http:\/\/siloarttrail.com\/works\/sea-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">silo trail.  <\/a>I also stumbled upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Skymirror<\/a> when I was looking for a morning coffee. Skymirror consisted of  a coffee shop, a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/store-by-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> photography gallery<\/a> and  printing press (Mallee Photographic Services,\u00a0) run by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/dan-colombo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dan Colombo, <\/a> and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/book-a-room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">boutique tourist accommodation.<\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicSealakeStaceysAutos_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sony A7 R111\" class=\"wp-image-4441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicSealakeStaceysAutos_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicSealakeStaceysAutos_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicSealakeStaceysAutos_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicSealakeStaceysAutos_-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicSealakeStaceysAutos_-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Stacey&#8217;s Auto, Sea Lake, Victoria <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition in the gallery  consisted of mostly coloured photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/sealake.vic.au\/about\/lake-tyrrell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lake Tyrrell,<\/a> the local  salt lake that attracted so many Asian tourists in pre-Covid times.  Most of the   photographs  that caught my eye  were those by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/anne-morley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anne Morley<\/a>  and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/dan-colombo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Dan Colombo. <\/a>  plus  the aerial photos of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timothy Moon<\/a> that were  made with a drone.  The  photos by the various photographers in the online   gallery &#8212; or rather  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skymirror.com.au\/store-by-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the print store<\/a> &#8212; were mostly  of Lake Tyrrell&#8217;s brillant colours. \u00a0 There was some indication that the next exhibition would be about  the mallee country.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst I sat  drinking my coffee and talking to fellow  travellers at Skymirror I  realized that this  looked to be the  rudimentary beginnings of a tourist industry. The Victorian mallee was in the process of changing  from when  I was  last in north-western Victoria.   People from Melbourne were out on the road  exploring their state,  after Melbourne&#8217;s  long,  intense lockdown in 2020  to contain the community spread of the virus. Judging by the cars and caravans on the road  was a marked  increase in domestic tourism due to being unable to go overseas because of  Australia&#8217;s  closed national borders   to protect Australia from the  Covid -19 virus.  Closing borders is politically popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicNoskeflourmillCharlton-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicNoskeflourmillCharlton-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicNoskeflourmillCharlton-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicNoskeflourmillCharlton-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicNoskeflourmillCharlton-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/malleeroutes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/VicNoskeflourmillCharlton-2048x1348.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Noske flour mill, Charlton, Victoria <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After the coffee I  drove down the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calder_Highway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Calder Highway<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Castlemaine,_Victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Castlemaine.<\/a>  camped over night at Castlemaine.  I had coffee the next morning with <a href=\"https:\/\/deakin.academia.edu\/JamesMcArdle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James McArdle <\/a>who runs the  <a href=\"https:\/\/onthisdateinphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On this Date in Photography<\/a> web site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highway  from Sea Lake to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wycheproof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wycheproof  <\/a>was new territory  for me. The land changed after Wycheproof with  the mallee giving  way to bigger eucalypts. I realized that Id left the mallee country.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent trip to Melbourne I decided to go the long way &#8212; along the Mallee Highyway to Ouyen and then along the Calder Highway to Castlemaine. 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