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Kelso.
The Anglican Church and historic cemetery of Kelso are well worth a visit. Historic buildings include Kelsoville historic house which dates from 1840 and Woolstone House built in 1880. The Anglican Church, the oldest away from the Sydney coast, dates from 1835. It is a fine Gothic style red brick church. By the Macquarie River is the site of the former Chinese market gardens on the Macquarie River flats. Kelsoville, a fine Georgian house was built by Thomas Kite in 1840. Like many other eventual leaders of the Bathurst district Thomas Kite was transported as a convict in 1814. He was one of the group of convicts who worked under Cox whilst building the road across the Blue Mountains. Governor Macquarie gave Kite (and the others) a land grant of 80 acres on the Macquarie River flats in 1818. Kite married a 16 year old girl in 1820 when he was 30 years old. They had 9 children. Soon Kite had purchased a further 150 acres and become the licensee for the first hotel in the district. In that year the governor gave him a further grant of 640 acres for his hard work and advancement of the district and a team of four assigned convicts to work for him. His original house built in 1820 was incorporated into the new Kelsoville House which he built in 1840.By then had owned 50,000 acres of land. He had amassed 200,000 acres by the time of his death in 1850. He is buried in the Anglican cemetery at Kelso. It was one of his sons who built the Italianate style mansion of Woolstone in 1880. So a former convict became one of the great and owners of the district. The Anglican cemetery also contains the graves of one of the First Fleeters who arrived at Botany Bay in 1788.
Bathurst skyline, shot across the harbour from Riverside Dr. Landmarks visible include Nicolas Denys building, the Old Post Office, the closed Chateau Bathurst and Sacred Heart Cathedral in the background.
There's also a flock of gulls on the ice, eating off the open water.
Dark sky was achieved with a circular polarizer, with some tweaking in Lightroom 4 to adjust the colours, and a few strokes of the Content Aware Healing to trim some branches.
Submitted to the 2012 DND Photo Contest (Environment).
On yesterday's photo, I noted that my views have been down. But I realized a few minutes ago that it may be because my pictures as of late haven't been all that appealing to the masses. These pictures of TTC stations and the RT are things that I'm into, but they're certainly not as popular as things like puppies.
However, half of the stuff I post on Flickr is stuff that I want to remember; documentation of the places I've been...so if I get less views because of pictures like this...whatever!
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This afternoon I went to the gym...I've been neglecting my biceps for most of the time I've been a member, so I decided to focus more on those today, and in the future.
I also watched the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery. I didn't even know it was happening until my sister texted me about it. I don't really think about space travel all that much, but they're planning on finishing the space shuttle program this year, which I think is pretty significant. Astronauts used different types of vehicles before the shuttles were put into use, but they've been using the shuttles since before I was born, so it's all I remember. I guess to older people, who've seen the programs come and go, this is just another step toward the future...where one day, we'll live on Mars because we've polluted the Earth beyond all recognition.
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