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Curramulka on Yorke Peninsula. Old farm house and shed ruins.
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Old Women
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Ouyen. The fine red brick Presbyterian Church of 1922. The timber framed Methodist Church of 1913 is attached at the rear.
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Peake. South Australia.The Peake Institute. Built in 1913.. Now a private residence.
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Myrla near Wunkar. This Lutheran Church was built by the Yinkanie railway line. It passed the church rear fence. Church built 1924 and railway line completed in 1925. Siding called Parrelum a wheat variety. Soon changed to Myrla. .
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Port Jackson Mallee Ash flower
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Tintinara sheep station. The original open hearth fire and stove area of the shearer's quarters. The quarters were built in 1865.
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Streaky Bay on Eyre Peninsula South Australia. Two storey building on right is the Streaky Bay Hotel.
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Maggea. The institute hall which opened in 1919. Now closed and privately owned. A state school was conducted in the hall from 1919 to 1967.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Piebald sheep with twin lambs. One black and one white. Redwing Farm. Lunch time. The black lamb is hard to see.
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Brim. St Paul's Anglican Church. Now closed and privately owned.
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Murrayville. the Lutheran church built in 1923 and still in use.
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Tailem Bend. Former railway town on the River Murray. The 1926 Anglican Church in local limetstone. Unsual brick work arched over small rectangular windows. (2)
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Eucalyptus pyriformis
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Walpeup. This grand red brick Catholic Church is now unused and in disrepair. it was completed in 1921 and is the oldest church in the Murrayville to Ouyen districts.
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Marama Public Hall. Built in 1930 and used as s a state school. On the Peebinga Railway line near Karoonda.
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Pilchera Bore School site in the Murray Mallee east of Borrika. School yard was planted with Sugar Gums as was traditional in South Australia.
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Burra. The copper mining company at Kooringa built a square of joined miners cottages for their workers around 1850. Paxton Square is now used for holiday accommodation. .
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Tailem Bend. The Catholic church. Built in 1924.
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Peebinga. Butchers Soak known to the Ngarkat Aboriginal people. One of only two permanent supplies of water in the 275 kms from Bordertown to Renmark.
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Tailem Bend. In the centre is the old railway turntable with radiating railway lines. A 14 bay Roundhouse was erected here by Railway Commissioner William Webb in 1926. Now old carriages stored here.
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Murrayville in the Victorian Mallee. Built in the 1920s and still operating. Even with misspelling of accommodation.
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Bute. Rusty iron cut out at the former railway station yards in Bute.
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Burra copper mine. The ruins of the ore dressing sheds built in 1870. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877.In the background a square Welsh ventilation chimney
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Eyre Peninsula. Australian native flower. Eutaxia microphylla. Known as Mallee Bush-pea. Yellowish flowers with orange keel. Flowering in late August.
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Burra SA This great copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. This is Morphetts three story stone Cornish style engine house. Built 1858. Restored in 1986.
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Coonalpyn. All that remains of the Coonalpyn Railway Station - the platform and a crane.
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Patchewollock. Detail of the Mallee farmer on the local silo. This is part of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts engine house. Built in 1858. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. Morphetts engine house had a huge Cornish engine. Partly burnt out in 1925 and restored in 1986.
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Mallee Bull
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Bakara east of Nildotti. Zadow's Bakara general store and farm house. The store operated from 1933 to 1987.
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Wasleys. Old advertising on the old blacksmith's shop. Plume petrol at the kerb. .
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Tiparra on Yorke Pemimsula. Canola crop in the last week of August near Tiparra Lutheran Church.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Redwing Farm The farm established around 1875.This old stone shearers or shepherds cottage looks like it dates from around 1860 to 1870.
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Coonalpyn. The Former Savings Bank of South Australia with the gold bank lettering still above the doors. Built around 1960 after the Ninety Mile Desert became the Coonalpyn Downs.
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Denial Bay on Eyre Peninsula. Black swans and Cormorants on the old wool loading platform for sailing ships. Loads taken out at low tide and put on ships at high tide.
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Denial Bay. Eyre Peninsula. A few of the 8 stone wells used to extract salty water for stock. It was condensed before use by the stock. On the pioneer property of William McKenzie.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. The first Methodist Church in Weetulta opened in 1887. A new stone church was erected in 1906. This modern church hall was built in 1954.
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Peake. Polly's Well sunk in 1877 on Whytes pastoral run of Moorlands. His run went from Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo. .
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Donkeys at Redwing Farm.
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Tailem Bend. On the River Murray. Former Methodist Church built in the towns heyday in 1927. It replaced the original Methodist Church of 1900. Now a residence.
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Sandalwood. In the Murray Mallee. Ruins of the state school built in 1928. Closed in 1944. Blackboard on all four walls
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Cowangie Methodist Church. Erected in 1926. Still in use. Now the Uniting Church. This is a side view with the ventilators on the roof.
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Streaky Bay. Wild coastline near Streaky Bay.
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Blue Mallee, E. polybracta
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Bowhill on the River Murray. The old Lutheran Church
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Waikerie. Jimmy Dvate painted this Regent Parrot on the old grain silos at Waikerie. His work depicts wild life of the River Murray.
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Mantung. In the Murray Mallee. The stage of the Mantung Hall which opened in 1921. This hall was also the state school.
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Peake. Polly's Well. Sunk in 1877.
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Mount Bryan East. Ruins of the Methodist Church built in 1913. Sir Hubert Wilkins attended the school next to this church.
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Mount Mary. Near Morgan on the Kapunda to Morgan railway line. The railway reached Mount Mary in 1878. Two joined stone railway workers houses are all that remain of the railway station. .
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Cobdogla. Vines seen from the Cobdogla to Loveday railway line. The line opened in 1921 and closed in the 1960s.
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Millendella or Milendella. The Lutheran Church built in 1893 and still in use with its bell tower and bell.. A Mallee settlement at the eastern foot of the Mt Lofty Ranges.
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Inneston. Old gypsum mining town. They mined Lake Inneston seen in photo. Gypsum mined 1913 to 1930. Town of Inneston is now a ghost town. Visible the ruins of the general store. Town closed 1930. Now Innes National Park .
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The once beautiful Eudunda Railway Station in South Australia. The line opened to here in 1878. It is now terribly vandalised. What a pity and a shame on the government. Love the gables and air vents.
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Sanderston. Memorial to local soldiers who died in World War One or World War Two.
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Burra. The womens exercise yard and outside dunny at Redruth Gaol built in 1856 in this great copper mining town. Closed in 1894. 1897 became reformatory for girls till 1922. Now a museum. .
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Yorke Peninsula. Innes Dhilba Guuranda National Park. At West Cape there are panormaic views of Pondalowie Bay the second bay to the north. Other views look towars Kangaroo Island, Althorpe Island, Middle Island etc.
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Tree - IMG_1242
by Nicola since 1972