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Some Classic Buildings Found In Moonta

Thursday, April 7th, 2011 at 10:41 pm

You may remember my post Of Flying Saucers, Rats And Ned Kelly, Scenic Sights Of Adelaide where I showed you some really cool sculptures that I came across on the way to Port Hughes, well one of the small towns I passed through was Moonta. I actually stopped there to buy some cakes to have with coffee when meeting up with our friends over at Port Hughes. If only I had known they were famous for their cornish pasties I would have bought a couple of those as well.

Moonta happens to be one of the three towns known as The Copper Triangle, the other two being Kadina and Wallarroo. Although it’s some 165 kilometres north-northwest of Adelaide it’s well worth the trip if you like checking out old towns. While there I had a quick look at the hardware store which was also the local antique store which had a lot of unique stuff I’d never seen before. It also had your normal range of antiques. I sure wish I knew more about antiques as I’m sure they would have some stuff there that might have been worth a little cash.

While there I did manage to take a couple of photos. This first one is of the Uniting Church which is at 88 Bay Rd. As you can see from the photo it’s got a real gothic appearance. Apparently it used to be a Methodist church and was built around 1873.

Another building of note is the Town Hall which also doubles as their theatre.

Looks cool doesn’t it? This building was built in 1885 and the clock tower and clock were added in 1907.

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Of Flying Saucers, Rats And Ned Kelly, Scenic Sights Of Adelaide

Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 8:04 pm

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On the weekend the wife and I drove down to Port Hughes, a small coastal town in the Copper Coast region of South Australia. It’s just past Moonta on The Yorke Peninsula. The tourists like coming here because of the safe swimming and for the fishing. I must admit not many people were catching fish on the jetty while I was there although some were catching crabs and squids.

Still, this post isn’t about Port Hughes it’s more about something I saw while driving up there. It looked like a large version of the Tin Man from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was just sitting there in this huge paddock, unfortunately I was going way to fast to stop for a photo. I did notice though some other sculptures on the other side of road and made a mental note to stop for photos on the way back.

So, coming back from Port Hughes, traveling on Port Wakefield road I say these three sculptures in the following order. First there was Ned Kelly and there was a sign in front of it which said Yesterday Ned Kelly, Today John Olsen. There’s also a barrel with the label Toxic on it.

Then there’s one of what looks to be an angry rat dressed in office clothes carrying a briefcase which has stuff about contaminated waste on it.

Finally there was one of a flying saucer complete with alien pilot.

That one had Lost In Waste painted on it which I thought was pretty good at the time. All three seemed to have waste as a common theme so I presume the sculptor has a thing for people ruining this beautiful world of ours, which we all should. Anyway, if you’re heading down Port Wakefield road you may want to keep and eye out for these guys. Oh, in case you’re interested I changed the clouds in that last photo using photoshop and you can see the results of that on Photos2Blog.