Gallery of log for Tootawallin Trig Station

The Son-in-law was working just up the road from here today and needed a key dropped off to him, so my Belle brought me along with the grandies to show me the views. We took the back road from Jambaroo. It was a beautiful drive. Was part of what we travelled the old highway? The really old stone buildings we passed seemed very familiar. Then we started heading up a hill, and up and up. I thought, I wonder if...

I opened the good old trusty NSW Trigs map and saw there was a trig right beside the road we were going up. My Belle, knowing how much I have liked finding trigs for years, noticed the name of a farm as we passed it, Trig Farm, and pointed out the name to me. I laughed because that was exactly the farm where the trig I was looking at on the map was. I was a little nervous about asking her to stop for photos at first because some of my kids kind of don't like the way I stop for geocaching with them. However, we returned along this road and I got the guts up to ask if we could stop. Of course she was more than happy to. She was even wondering why I hadn't asked the first pass. She said she knows how much I love that kind of thing. So photos were taken of the farm sign, the trig with a kookaburra perched on it (it was real), and the views from just a little back down the road, one with a kangaroo wondering wtf I was doing. My phone camera does not do the views justice - you'll just have to come here to see them for yourself. I did forget to get a photo of myself there though. In my defence, I was THAT CLOSE to running late for an event in Austinmer which I arrived at with 3 minutes to spare.

Fun fact: Apparently Hamish Blake lives on this road too. His driveway was pointed out to me as the Son-in-law has worked there too.