BBC 18 - Horse and Rider

This statue is adjacent to the highway and commemorates William Romaine Govett, who was tasked with surveying the upper Blue Mountains in the early 19th C.

His name occurs in many features around town, but he is particularly remembered for discovering Govetts Leap (a leap being the Scottish name for a waterfall) in 1831, and for the endless number of fables around the legend of Govetts Leap.

In 1974 the Blackheath Rhodendron Society commissioned the sculptor Arthur Murch to create a statue of a horse and rider, possibly with the intention of attracting tourists.

I seem to remember there was a coin operated machine into which you could pop a 20c coin and hear the legend told.  In fact, I think it's still there, but has never worked.
Doesn't sound like much of a money spinner to me:)

Anyway, it's been pouring all day, so I stopped the car, opened the door and 'snap'.
(Just in case you couldn't tell.)
Half the country's flooding and the crisis appears to have  a way to go, and northern Victoria's on fire.
What times!

Cymbeline and I had planned to go up in the middle of the night with our torches and do a light painting, which may have been a little more interesting, certainly more fun, but it just won't be possible in this rain.

Back to work tomorrow.  Where did that go??