Monumental weekend

And I do mean 'monumental' as in the dictonary connotation - "historical prominent".
I visited some cemeteries, like the lonely Sailor's Home Cemetery

And some notable headstones - on the left is the single grave beside Simson Street in Brim, and on the right is George Bell in the tiny Lake Coorong Pioneer Cemetery in Hopetoun.

Another lone grave (and lonely too) John Archbold's grave at the top of Lake Albacutya, needed to wade through a wheat crop while scaling the hill to reach the two pines overlooking his memorial.

But it wasn't only about dead people monuments, there were the two Silo Art Trail murals, definitely giant monuments - 

Fintan Magee's at Patche (still not convinced about the dead tree), but it does look impressive on the approach to town from the east and from the north.

And there can never be too many of the Brim silo, especially as I'm still to be there on a sunny afternoon. This was relatively early with the sun behind the silo.

And I had both to myself, no other photographers in sight.

Then there were the small monuments - see if you can spot the brown sign (not the hand-painted sign on the fence)

 
This as the sign says was the first site of the Tyenna (Tempy East) school, a single room weatherboard building with an open fireplace, situated there from 1923 to 1946.

The guys who erected the sign didn't anticipate the  growth of the old peppercorn tree. 

Little wonder that someone else took it upon themselves to create the hand painted one on the cyclone fence. 

Further west there was this poignant  building - 

The Echunga State School No. 4481 (originally known as Gaalanungah West, alternate named Euchunga and Weeroona). It opened in June 1931 in the rented Echunga Hall (erected for school purposes), a limestone rubble building rendered in concrete. It was situated on the road between Hopetoun and Yaapeet (a road busy with hay carters). The school closed in 1947. Sad when the local people had put so much effort into establishing it.

Another monument to our build/create and abandon/discard, this car rusting away just north of Rainbow.

And finally one of nature's monuments, this is a panoramic shot of Lake Hindmarsh, taken from 'The Cliffs'.