The round-Australia-journey is something special, it's a long way, but worth it. Takes a while though.
Some receiving points are far larger but in the small towns they tend to be of about this size, or possibly double depending on the surrounding areas output. They truck the grain here, Viterra pay a pittance to the farmer, then they truck it to ports for shipping to processing plants and charge a fortune for what they paid the farmer chump-change. [Viterra monopolise, choke the farmers and basically do what big corporations do.]
Below is a larger collection point with many silos. I'd say that four to eight silos is about the average in the smaller towns though. [This is in Port Lincoln.]
Our inland terminals can be larger than that. I see that straight section of roadway there and I'm familiar with that, but just change the scenery to all grain. No trees, no hills, nothing. Just wheat. Then way off in the distance, a skyscraper, but it's for grain.. LOL
I've seen images from up your way and someday my eyes will see it in person; That's the plan anyway. I have the need to see everything! Greedy I guess, but someday I'll die so it seems prudent to live the life I wish to have. I'm working on it day by day.
We only have 26m people in the country so I guess everything is a litte smaller, less. That is, except for awesome. Loads of that to go around. Lol.
Canada isn't much bigger than Australia and we probably only have 10 more million living here. Most is uninhabited. A lot to see though. Most of the cool places are hidden gems. And you're right about these strange little towns and their odd landmarks being everywhere. I know of a place where there's a massive set of antlers the size of a house, and it doesn't make any sense.
Yep Canada is big too - Loads of wilderness which appeals to me. I'll get there.
Those quirky things in small towns are hilarious sometimes but they donthe job despite often making no sense. What's life without a little quirkiness. 🤪
Exactly. Man I was out exploring back roads on the dirtbike and came across a farm yard, and there was like a kilometer worth of hubcaps and license plates hanging from the trees. As I got closer to the house there were all kinds of psychotic sculptures made out of random metal items.
The old hubcap forest, an old favourite.
I often wonder if they were collected off the roadside or off cars themselves and if the latter were the occupants disposed of, or willing participants! 😬
I think it'd make a good book actually, documenting all the odd stuff around the place in the our if the way towns. A pretty good road trip too. In fact, there's a website that lists all the silo art here and I reckon it would be good to hop from one to the other and see what's in between too.
So much to do, so little time.
It's actually a rewarding experience every time to simply stop and look around. I'm not sure if I'd stick around long enough to find the bodies though.