Moving day and first stop was Deloraine. We walked the main street where they have sculptures on both sides of the street. There are 13 aluminium sculptures and they were quite interesting to look at while breaking up the trip. We drove through Railton which is the town of topiary. It has over 150 character topiary around the town including a train, lion, horse, alpaca, tassie devil. We didn't actually stop but saw all of the ones in the main street. The train looked really good. Next stop was Sheffield which is famous for its murals. Some of the shops and buildings in the main street have murals painted on. Each year they have a mural painting competition where the entrants have to paint their interpretation of something, this year being a poem called Reflections of Time. We were lucky enough to arrive while the artist were painting. They have until next Saturday lunch time to finish and then they are judged with the winner announced. This occurs in Mural Park. There are 9 contestants in the park, so there are their murals together with all of last years entries and the winning mural for each year since the competition began in 2005. It was amazing (and also amazing that nothing had been vandalised over the years!). Lunched sitting in a park in Sheffield looking at Mt. Roland in the distance. Back in the car and drove to Burnie which is so much larger than we expected. Here for a couple of nights so will explore tomorrow.
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| Deloraine street sculpture |
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| Sheffield Mural Festival |
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