Yesterday we had a day sightseeing, first stop was HMAS Sydney memorial 
That has 645 seagulls that form the dome, one for every life lost when it was sunk 19 November 1941 by a German Raider which was also sunk with 80 lives lost and the remainder were interned until the end of WW11.
The wreck was only found in 2008 & this has been built nice then.
Everything was symbolic right to the material used in its construct.
The LifeSize Bronz statue of a woman looking out to sea, forever waiting.
Another view.
Naturally it is on a hill overlooking Geraldton and it gives a great view of the city.
Under the centre of the Dome is a propeller 
The wall in the back ground has the name of every one engraved.
On then further south where we saw the leaning trees. It shows which way the wind blows.....westerly!
This is an isolated one but we saw many more on out travel.
Our destination was Greenough which is now a heritage village which was a busy farming & central community centre in the late 1800 & up to about 1970 & it's now a very interesting place to visit. Both Anglician & Catholic Churches which are still used on a monthly basis..
School
Their information centre was well appointed and very informative. Even the outside was cute.....
And a big Police station & Court house. The Sargent & his wife had 14 children!!! The was also a gaol , this is the exercise yard!
The Catholic Church even had a boarding school there.
We watched a half hour video of the history & found it most interesting.
On then to Ellendale Pool, a very beautiful spot where we could have camped for $5 per night.
No he didn't jump in!
The flies had found it also, so we had our lunch in the car!
Brian didn't like the last 5k because it was dirt road & we had just had the car washed!,not too bad this time. Saw some wild flowers but the predominant was Wattle, which has a bush instead of a tree that we are used to.
There is another yellow bush but the flowers are not as intense as the Wattle 
Our last stop for the day was the Infirmation Centre which is most interesting and has a display of the wildflowers. Out side they have the giant Mortan Bay Fig Tree planted in 1900. A wonderful sight.
Time to go home as it started to rain, but it had been a wonderful day.
Today, it was grocery, pills and I got a pair of warm tracks dacks, cold nights when free camping over the next month. We also bought a board game from Toyworld.... Delux Rummy-O. We were missing Fred & Monika too much. First game about to be played.
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