Monday, 28 May 2012

Whispering wall

The Whispering Wall is is in fact the retinaining wall of the Barossa Reservoir. Built between 1899 and 1903, the dam was a revoluntionary engineering feat to its day and attacted attention forom all over the world. It is located nearby Williamstown in Barrossa Valley. 

It attracts visitors because of its unique acoustic effeccts: worlds whistperted at one side can be clearly heard at the other, more than 100 metres away.

  
Beautiful day and water in dam at Whispering wall 

 Architecture and engineering wonder of the world

 Small maintenance and machine area

My husband and son walking on the path of the dam

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