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Augathella Water Tower, Australian Silo Art Trail
Photos by: Geoff Appleyard 

Augathella Water Tower Art - Queensland

Artists:   Blender Studios

Location: Forest Street, Augathella, Queensland

Photos By: Sandy Ford

Artwork commenced 8th February 2020


This bright and colourful water tower represents the town of Augathella which has a colourful & unique history full of Bullock Teams and notorious bushrangers who camped along the Warrego River.


Augathella lies on the Matilda Highway and is 85 kilometers north of the town of Charleville. The township itself was settled as a junction of three tracks, from Charleville in the south, Burenda Station, and from Tampo in the West.

It was at this junction bullock teams camped on the Warrego River long before settlement. In 1880 the town/junction was surveyed and called Ellangowa and in 1883 the township was officially gazetted as Augathella.


Working Bullock teams provided the muscle needed in our pioneering days. While Australia rode 'on a sheep's back', the wool that brought the region's prosperity rode the dusty miles from outback stations to the port on lumbering bullock wagons.


Today Bullock Teams are almost a thing of the past, but around the Murweh shire when people talk of the 'good old days' it is the colourful bullocky and his mighty, patient bullocks who are often brought to mind.... one of these popular old Bullocky characters was Frank Welch..... Do you know a Bullocky?????

It was essential for the Augathella community to capture the 'Bullock team & wagon' in their epic #TrailblazingtheWest Mural.


Depicted on the tower which was painted by Blender Studios in February 2020 is a bullock team, a boundary rider, windmill and old man emu.


***The Boundary Rider***

He rode fences until sundown,

Rounding stock & ejecting strays,

He was the keeper of the Outback,

A myth of modern days.....


**OLD MAN EMU**

He's got a beak & feathers & things,

But poor old fella ain't got no wings....

"While the eagle's flying round & round,

I keep my two feet firmly on the ground....

I can't fly, but I'm telling you,

I can run the pants off a Kangaroo!"

~John Williamson


Source: Red Ridge Interior Queensland


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