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Unknown Artist This is number four of, I suspect, six boxes around town. It resides outside the Mathoura Bowling Club and depicts a scene from early settlement

Unknown Artist No plaque for this tree carving near the corner shops. I went for a walk around town and this was my last picture before testing out the hospitality of the local pu…

Unknown Artist This is a small section of the local amenity block at the Long Paddock Visitors Centre. The rest stop was an interesting place with a playground for the children an…

Unknown Artist I didn't notice a plaque for these wire framed horses but that's not to say there wasn't one. This was one of many sculptures at the Long Paddock Visito…

Geoff Hocking We came here for a Geocache and ended up finding a whole lot more.  I wont tell you where the cache is but i'd neber found one like that before and it took me …

Unknown Artist This sewage box is titled 'Mathoura Public School' It's an old painted box depicting Mathoura Public School of a very early time of settlement. The box …

While in town I had two different women tell me about this fence. Very specifically I wasn't allowed to leave a bra without making a donation. I didn't leave a bra nor a d…

Chris Firebrace & Chris Turner This was the first box in Mathoura I discovered. It was nice to find a name attached and a year stamp of 1999 but it was the only box I discover…

Unknown Artist  I can't tell you much about these boxes. I stumbled across one while heading out of town visiting the in laws and kept my eyes peeled for more afterwards. Wh…

Cory Thomas The sculpture is inspired by the work of Australian painter Russell Drysdale. It depicts a drover and his horse. Like many drovers, back before modern infrastructure a…

Julie Guinan A lot of people know about the Murray cod but not who made it which is a real shame. Julie Guinan is a local according to my inlaws. She created 'Colin the Cod…