Wombeyan
This was a pretty amazing trip to Wombeyan.
I had sent a number of friends an email about Nabuur and
John Hoskin had rung to say he had been planning to go to Bougainville
to discuss building a relationship between Orange and a Bougainville village.
Now, however, he was planning to meet up and discuss all this
with Moses and Marilyn Havini,
camping at Wombeyan.
We went to Wombeyan too... and found ourselves not only in their good company
but also in the company of Moses and Marilyn's good friend Jonny Lewis,
and attending Jonny's
Inaugural Wombeyan International Photography Festival.
That was all so fantastic that we didn't visit the caves, have no picture of them!
Jonny's account is in his weblog.
Here is a bit of our Sunday-Monday 23-24 January 2005 trip.
The road winds through steep country with many blind corners
— but there are safety fences!
and there are safety signs
Along the way you cross the Wollondilly River
The camp grounds at Wombeyan are very pleasant.
Here are Ev and John, at Wombeyan
and here the Havini family – Moses, Marilyn and Taloi – with Jonny and Jody
Ev was delighted to find among the phamous fotographers Jenny Templin,
with whom she had travelled central and Western Australia with the Sea of Hands...
Now it seems to be See my Biscuit!
We were generously invited to Jonny's for lunch, just out of Wombeyan...
the trip there was a bit spectacular too.
And the outside of the house, at the top of a hill,
reminded me just a bit of the Tikse monastery,
though I've not been to Tikse :-)
Ev helped Anthony Browell take a group picture with his hand-made pinhole camera.
No easy matter to get this group to stand still for the number of seconds the camera required.
Notice how close the camera - how wide the angle through the pinhole.
We had to run as the day darkened...
