eyrepeninsula

Eyre Peninsula
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. The Smoky Bay government school room 1909 to 1959. Now disused
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. The Smoky Bay government school room sign 1909 to 1959. Now disused
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Smoky Bay. Poster of the SA Premier Oysters who conduct wine and oyster tours on this platform in their oyster nets in the ocean.
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. The Smoky Bay government school room 1909 to 1959. View through the former window.
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Smoky Bay. Between Ceduna and Streaky Bay. The Smoky Bay government school room 1909 to 1959. Now disused
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Fowlers Bay. The Far West Coast of South Australia. About 880 kms west of Adelaide. A Southern Right Whale lazing in the bay.
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. The government school room 1909 to 1959. Now disused
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. Granite memorial stone for the government school room 1909 to 1959.
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. Granite memorial stone and school yard of the government school room 1909 to 1959.
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. The government school room 1909 to 1959 with fireplace and blackboard. Now disused
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Denial Bay. One of about 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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Denial Bay. The stone ruins of William McKenzie's homestead and a lone Eucalyptus. He was the pioneer settler of the district. .
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Denial Bay. The stone ruins of William McKenzie's homestead and one of his many stone wells. He was the pioneer settler of the district. .
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Denial Bay. The stone ruins of William McKenzie's homestead. He was the pioneer settler of the district. .
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FowlersBay. Great Southern Right Whale watch cruise.
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Fowlers Bay. Great Southern Right Whales seen from a whale watch cruise in this birthing and calving area.
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Fowlers Bay. Great Southern Right Whale tail as seven mothers and white calves play around the bay.
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Fowlers Bay. Great Southern Right Whale and white calf lolling in the bay.
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Fowlers Bay on the Far West Coast of Eyre Peninsula. . Map of the bay and town.
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Fowlers Bay Eyre Peninsula. Southern Right whale mother swimming near the sand hills.
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Fowlers Bay on Eyre Peninsula. Seaweed on the beach with the sand hills beyond.
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Fowlers Bay jetty and sand hills. In the foreground a mother Southern Right Whale. They used the bay as a birthing area from June to September.
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Fowlers Bay on Eyre Peninsula. Last town before the Head of the Bight and the Western Australian border. Blue waters and sand dunes.
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Yalata Sheep Station near Fowlers Bay. Run established 1858 by Robert Barr Smith and William Swan. Homestead built in 1880. Ruins of a well or whim by the sheep yards. At its peak it covered 2.24 million acres.
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Wirrulla The Police Station built like other police stations around 1930.
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Thevenard. St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church built in 1972..
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Wirrulla. School memorial plaque on a huge limestone boulder.
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Wirrulla. The former Methodist church built in 1966. It then became a Uniting Church before it closed. Before it opened the nearest Methodist Church was at Nunjikompita.
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Wirrulla. The former Methodist church built in 1966. It then became a Uniting Church before it closed.
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Wirrulla Eyre Peninsula. The grand facade of the Memorial Hall built in 1926.
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Denial Bay. Eyre Peninsula. A row of children's graves in the Denial Bay Lutheran church cemetery.
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Eyre Peninsula. The disused railway line from Ceduna to Port Lincoln with canola crop in the distance.
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Eyre Peninsula. South Australia. Pretty yellow flowering Australian native plant. Probably Hibbertia cineria. Flowering in late August.
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Ceduna. Marble headstone in the cemetery of Maria Moody who died in 1917.
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Penong. The famous Southern Cross windmill. It has a 25 feet sail span and was built in 1941. These windmills were manufactured 1935 to 1980 in Toowoomba QLD. It was first erected at Bookabie.
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Penong. The Far West Coast of South Australia. This was probably the old hospital of Penong.
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Minnipa. The Gawler Ranges from Tcharkuldu Hill and weathered granite rocks It is a huge inselberg. It provided a water catchment for the town's water supply from 1915.
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Penong. The new Institute built in 1966 next to the old 1901 Institute.
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Wirrulla. A brick pavement to commemorate past students of the Wirrulla state primary school. In front of the War Memorial.
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Wirrulla. Eyre Peninsula. The former State Bank of South Australia building. This is an unusual design. Built around 1940. The bank was established in 1924.
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Wirrulla. Eyre Peninsula. The Wirrulla Hotel is still in business. It was built in 1927 and opened in December 1927.
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Penong. The Public Hall or Institute. Built with voluntary labour in 1901. It closed in 1966 and became a surf board factory. A new public hall opened next door in 1966.
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Wirrulla. Eyre peninsula. The story of Wirrulla's inland jetty from the port at Haslam.
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Wirrulla. Eyre Peninsula, The inland jetty was moved from Port Haslam in 2001 . Wool was carted from Wirrulla to Haslam so the jetty served Wirrulla. Now part of it is in Wirrulla. Wirrulla is 35 kms from Port Haslam. .
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Wirrulla. Eyre Peninsula. The old state primary school. Built in 1927 and used until 1983.
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Wirrulla. Advertising on this Mini Mart and old garage building.
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Penong. The story of Australia's largest windmill. It has a sail span of 35 feet. A Comet is located in the Penong outdoor Windmill Museum. Made in Sydney.
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Penong. Australia's biggest windmill in the Penong windmill museum. It is 35 feet high and was originally on a sheep station near Kingoonya. Only 15 were ever built and only 2 are outside of QLD.
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Penong. Far West Coast of South Australia. The former town bakery store and residence.
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Penong. The Penong hotel began life as part of Penong sheep station. It became a store in 1905 and then the town Hotel in 1910 when major additions were made to it.
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Penong. At the outdoor windmill museum is this diagram of how a windmill operates to pump, water from beneath the ground.
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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. And White Everlasting flowers.
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Eyre Peninsula. Pretty yellow flowering Australian native plant. Probably Hibbertia cineria.
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Poochera. Eyre Peninsula. Peter Sheridan's flattened kerosene humpy built on scrub land in Poochera in the 1920s. Now in the Poochera open air museum.
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Poochera Eyre Peninsula. The town was established in 1920 and soon had a state school. A new stone and brick school was built in 1933
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Poochera Eyre Peninsula. Peter Sheridan's flattened Pennant brand kerosene humpy built on scrub land in Poochera in the 1920s. Now in the Poochera open air museum.
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Poochera Hotel. Built in 1930. Not operating now but the hotel is occupied by the owners who run the adjacent caravan park.
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Poochera Eyre Peninsula. Peter Sheridan's flattened kerosene humpy built on scrub land in Poochera in the 1920s. Now in the Poochera open air museum.
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Poochera Eyre Peninsula. The very rare Dinosaur Ant was found at Poochera in 1977. Next to an information board is this statue of a tiny Dinosaur Ant. They are only one centimetre long.
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