York around town

First stop was the flour mill where there are arts and crafts on sale and a cafe, busy on Sunday morning with people having breakfast in the courtyard. It is right next to the train line, where a heavily graffitied grain train was being hitched onto its engine:

There was a man with two minuscule dogs who wanted to say hello to Rocky. The encounter was friendly. The man owned a purple VW campervan, an original which had been shipped in pieces from Germany years ago and reassembled here. It had a number plate with the entire word YORK as opposed to the modern Y:

We strolled down to the river and across the suspension bridge which swings about alarmingly if you jump up and down on it:

It was now getting too hot to be out, so I took one final photo before heading back to Hillside:

This giant bilby is an example of Wara Art, which was brought to York from Japan in 2008. There are several around town featuring Australian endangered fauna. In Japan, rice straw has traditionally been used to create utilitarian objects such as tatami mats. With the advent of man-made materials farmers have been left with an excess of rice straw at the end of the rice harvest. In W.A. wheat straw has been used to produce the sculptures. Eventually they gradually fall to bits as they get destroyed by the elements.

Back home at our cottage, we tried eating outside on the veranda till the flies drove the younger people inside:

There is a trail of giant Christmas cards.