Continuing the A-Z of Australian country towns with attendant haiku, today is the letter H.
Hall
Hall is a small village just within the boundaries of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and close to the New South Wales border. The first white population in the area came as graziers. The continuing expansion of the nation’s capital, Canberra, means that dormitory suburbs or townships are moving closer to Hall.
www.hall.act.au/
Helidon
Helidon is in southern Queensland in the productive Lockyer Valley. As a child, I recall visiting the mineral baths and becoming badly sunburnt!
www.helidon.com.au
www.helidon.com.au
Hay
Out on the Hay Plains
Out on the Hay Plains
Sheep graze in the baking sun
Wool protects them well!
Hall
Small but defiant
Small but defiant
Hall – a pebble in the shoe
of Canberra’s sprawl.
Helidon
Urgh! Sunburnt shoulders
Urgh! Sunburnt shoulders
on Helidon holidays:
youthful senselessness.
Caenys Kerr, Author 