We chose Finley as our morning tea stop, enticed by the signs on the approach to Finley which counted down from "10 minutes to the Finley bakery". We'd missed the small town bakeries in recent days and were not to be disappointed with this one. Bryon had a vanilla slice and Lucinda a custard kiss to go with our pot of tea and they were delicious. We had parked the van adjacent to the Finley pioneer railway precinct and a signboard there gave us a feel for what the activity would have been like last century when large numbers of sheep would have been loaded onto rail wagons here.

Mural painting on silos has become popular as a way of uniting community and increasing tourism in regional area. Initiated as part of the town’s Community Kickstart plan, Tungamah was the first to complete silo art in northern Victoria, after Broome artist Sobrane Simcock finished the painting of the three brolgas and a kookaburra on the silos in February 2018. We lunched in the van in the shadows of the silos.

The artwork on Devenish's now disused concrete silo depicts a World War I nurse and a current day army medic. The general store operator said that they will be joined by a light horse artwork on the adjacent metal silo, but completion had been delayed until early 2019 because artist Cam Scale's wife was expecting a baby.

The general store operator also told us to make sure we did not miss seeing the mural in the Uniting Church just before the Goorambat silo. In fact this mural was done before the silo when the giant mural of Sophia – the personification of divine wisdom in the Old Testament – was created by a Melbourne street artist, Adnate, as part of the annual Benalla Wall-to-Wall festival in 2017.

The barking owl and a rural landscape on adjacent silos at Goorambat were painted by famed iconic Melbourne street artist Jimmy DVate as part of the 2018 Wall to Wall festival. Dvate is known for his striking renditions of endangered animals from across Australia. We were particularly impressed by the efforts of the local community to create a good viewpoint for visitors, which extended to a sunshade and picnic table, because at some other silo art installations visitors were prevented for getting good photos due to restricted access for safety reasons.

It was too far to make the final drive home and so we pulled into the Midland Holiday Park at Lima South, just south of Benalla. The fridge and pantry are looking a bit empty, which is fair enough given we're almost home, but we still had a couple of chicken schnitzels and a salad left for dinner and of course the remainder of the sticky date self saucing pudding which we had with some banana and ice-cream.