And now they're building a ring road between Geelong and Ceres, cutting a giant swathe through the landscape so that people from Melbourne wanting to get down to their holiday cottage on the Great Ocean Road can get there a bit quicker and we residents down have to put up with them. OK, I may be exaggerating, there may be a few more reasons that that, and they may be important reasons, but the ring road that we thought we wanted is certainly making a statement.
The discerning reader might notice that the clouds in the two photos are the same - I drove to a less busy spot away from powerlines for the second one.
2 comments:
Oh dear. I remember that road well. As a former South-west Victorian Regional Tourist Officer, I was based in Hamilton, and co-operated closely with my Geelong colleague.
I hate to see such "progress" carving up the tranquil rural scenes. Yuck!
Denis
Ceres is a quaint little spot and has an identity of its own.
I love those rolling hills west of Geelong. They have a kind of Brigadoon look about them as if they might disappear in the mist. Oh that ring road, I haven't seen it close up but them guys and their earth-moving equipment - they just love to show their power!
w.
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