Somewhere Else

We always enjoy looking at sundials, and in May last year we described the analemmic sundial at Mt Annan in Sydney. With this unusual type of sundial, your own shadow tells the time. The “analemma” is a figure 8 pattern on the ground which indicates where to stand in different months of the year.

Although analemmic (or analemmatic – the terms are synonymous) sundials are quite rare, we have found a second one in our travels. It is shown above and is located in the Victorian town of Sale, about 210km east of Melbourne. You can find it in the grassy parkland next to Lake Guyatt Wetlands.