Silos, sculpture, scenery and so much more! - The Silos

Recently we spent some time in South Australia. We went to Adelaide as my brother was hosting Christmas, and we thought we would take the opportunity to see a bit of the state given that Robert's work has a compulsory shutdown period. We decided to focus on the Eyre Peninsula, as I hadn't spent as much time there as I had in other places.

In order to try and share as many pics as possible without taking up too much space, I was going to try creating some groups of slideshows. however I couldn't really get them to work so apologies in advance but this post is very image heavy! Originally I was going to do the silos, sculptures, scenery etc in just one post, but I think I will break it up into different posts just to make it easier!

I have shared some individual photos here and there over the last couple of weeks, but this will be more comprehensive.

So let's start with the silo art. We have seen quite a few art silos now. You can see others by clicking on this link. Most of them have been in Victoria but we had previously seen one in South Australia and one in Western Australia. Our route for this road trip was really designed to see as many as we could, but we did surprise ourselves by adding an extra in on the way to Adelaide that we hadn't actually planned for. 

We then planned to see more on the way to Wallaroo where we stayed one night, and a couple more on the Eyre Peninsula. All up, I think we saw 13 different silos on this trip. Actually, we saw many, many more of them but 13 of them had art on them. Now when I see unpainted silos I just see a blank canvas just waiting to be decorated.

We won't mention the fact that I got sea sick on the ferry trip from Wallaroo to the Eyre Peninsula

Horsham - we had seen this one before!

Arkona - This was a new one to us, and was interesting because it is an invisible man, and something a bit different. The way I interpreted it was about how important sport is in country communities.

Albacutya - This was one that we only realised was close by when we were at Arkona. When I say nearby, it was about 70kms away, there and back. Distances is relative right?

Kaniva - We had seen this one before, and I only had a couple of minutes to grab a photo because I had added on more travel time by going to Albacutya 

Coonalpyn - The first of our South Australian silos. This one is right on the main road between Melbourne and Adelaide and so we have seen this one before!

Eudunda - This one is about story and books, and honours a famous South Australian author called Colin Thiele who came from near this town

Farrell Flat - Great colours on this one!

Owen - We have seen one of this artists other silos in Victoria before. 

Bute - All of these have lovely details in them. In this one I liked how the flowers seem to be flying off her dress.

Wallaroo - This one is a bit different in that the silo isn't painted, but there is a light projection that is shown every night as it gets dark.

Cowell - This one commemorates a local legend and his camels! Yes, we have lots of camels in Australia. 

Tumby Bay - I swear you can feel the joy in this one!

Kimba - The last of the art silos for this trip. Kimba is approximately half way across Australia going from East to West.

I will be back with the customary What We Ate of Holidays post for Weekend Cooking in the next week or so and the other posts in the next few days, hopefully!

I have added the map below to give some idea of where we went. The blue line is a very approximate idea of the route we took.  All up we travelled approximately 3500 kms, so it was a fair bit of driving. We did try to plan to only drive a maximum of 4 hours each day after the first day,  and we mostly stuck to that!