DAY 13 Pilbara – Kimberley Trip
SNAKE HILL – MALCOLM DAM
What a lovely day today
Although I’d like to give the heat away
The hot refrain is with us again
It has hit forties once again
As we head slowly north
Whilst striving forth
On gibber tracks and roads
Past mulga scrub in loads
“Inside Australia” we dropped in
To see Gromley’s carbonised steel figures sunk in
Like antennas in Ballard Salt Lake’s ba-sin
They walk in the water, or so it would seem
As rain in the area there has much been
Not easy to walk on the salty lake bed
As feet slip and sink in the muddy lake bed
After some dips in Niagara Dam
Wandered if it will be the same at Malcolm Dam
Then to Niagara the town that has been
And to Kookynie likewise it seems
Like blazing trails of passing comets
They rose and fell as well known sonnets
Along Old Laverton Road we go
Looking for signs that will tell us where to go
Finally turn left and three K to go
To sit by the water and nowhere else need I go
You must be wandering what is “Inside Australia”. It is an incredible instillation of 51 life size sculptures by an English Born artist, Anthony Gromley on a salt lake 51 km from Menzies. They were obviously installed when the lake was empty as we could only get to a few of them. The rest were way out in the water.
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