Herring Island

 For some time we have had on our list of places to visit, the sculpture park on Herring Island in the Yarra, below Como House.  It has an advantage, with the disgusting fuel prices around at present that it is reasonably easy to reach by tram (with a 1km walk down Williams Rd from the stop on Toorak Rd.)  The Park was originally a haunt of Scout troops and is named after a Scout Commissioner, and nothing to do with fish.

The island is attained by a free punt put on by Parks on Summer weekends (or by your own boat/kayak).  This looking at the South landing on the Island from Como Landing.
This is the map shown on Parks Notices.  The works are shown accurately.
This is the text to accompany the map.  The arrows reflect the transpositions of the text!  I have pointed this out to Parks.  (A pity, as the Park  is otherwise very good.)
I missed photographing "Audience" by Julie Collins as it is well integrated into the environment (ie looks like a pile of rocks).  Made of Bluestone (aka basalt).  This image is from Wikipedia.
A work by John Davies "A Hill, a River, two Rocks and a presence."
The first Andy Goldsworthy.  Quite small by his standards but rather nice.  The rock is Castlemaine Slate, which explains the smooth slicing.
Detail of the top.  As far as I could see the layers were placed and not fixed together.
The second Andy Goldsworthy.  It is called Stonehouse and is 'about" discovery and concealment of the island.  The rock is Dunkeld sandstone.
On the western tip of the island  this work by Jill Peck is titled "Steerage", and is composed of Harcourt Granite.
Looking down the Yarra at the Church St Bridge.  It is curious that the road into the North, in Cremorne is Church St while to the South in Toorak/South Yarra it is Chapel St.
Another view of Steerage.
The Monash Freeway is just across the River, so we see this when we come in by the Domain Tunnel.
An interesting, less formal, bit of art on the piling for the freeway.
"Falling Fence" by John Gollings with Samantha Slicer.  The timber is Cypress Pine.

"Scaled Stem" by Robert Bridgewater  using Monterey Cypress (native to California and not closely related to Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata).
"Ramp" by Robert Jacks,  The wood - presumably the planks as well as the sculpted elements -is River Red Gum.  It is a commentary on rural architecture.
"Tanderrum (Coming Together)" by Ellen Jose, more Castlemaine Slate and "indigenous plants" reflecting the union of the Kulin Nation.
The punt stops between 1230 and 1300 to let the driver/pilot have a lunch break.  There was a queue on both sides of the river!



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