Robbie Burns.

Today’s blip is from Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand, in the centre of the city is a road structure called the Octagon containing many historical and artistic elements. In the centre of the park is a statue dedicated to Robbie Burns, born in 1759. Our recent New Years celebrations would not be complete without his verse of “Auld Lang Syne”. Robbie died in 1796. Robbie Burns is remembered in Dunedin by the first sculpture erected in 1887, the sculpture was created by Sir John Steele (Edinburgh) the poet’s nephew, the Rev Thomas Burns, was a co-founder of the Otago settlement in 1848 and Presbyterian minister of Dunedin’s first church. A little irony in that the sculpture stands proudly in front of Dunedin’s StPaul’s Cathedral (Anglican)
Additional photo, from the 18 th Sept at Norseman, trucks loaded with stock food making the 2500 kilometres to the drought stricken states. Photo two shows a view of the road near the Western and South Australian boarder.