Seems like I was last in Bombala 19 years ago. Or maybe I've been there again since then and have forgotten and didn't blog it which doesn't sound like me. Anyway, the main attraction for Bombala as far as I'm concerned (aside from the historical value of a town that was one of the three or four initially slated to be the national capital) is the small coterie of statues representing cartoon characters of the 1930s-40s, mainly Popeye and Ginger Meggs characters with the bonus of a representation of Dobell's painting of Joshua Smith (the implication being I suppose that it is not fine art but a caricature, which was a smooth-brained criticism of the time).Bombala is a town I like a bit, and I was able to see that the weird little statues are definitely still there, and looking in not terrible shape, though some wag has I suppose pushed one or two over with presumably a stick or something. Can you imagine that boy going to bed at night still chuckling over the kerfuffle that he has caused by pushing a little statue over in the enclosure by the swimming pool. 'They'll never guess it was me,' he says to himself, and then the next day he forgets to not walk around town with the same stick poking everything he sees and giggling.
I had no time to stroll in Bombala but I see the Olympia Theatre is still there and looking good.
This is it from behind:
