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Mount Mary. Near Morgan on the Kapunda to Morgan railway line. The railway reached Mount Mary in 1878. Memorial cairn.
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Swan Reach. The town cemetery in the sand dunes beside the Murray River. Earliest graves date from 1905. Town was established in 1900.
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Hopetoun. The 1927 built Mt Gambier limestone Methodist Church is now a combined Methodist and Baptist Church.
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Loxton. The recreated Loxton Village Museum. Life in the Mallee. Baker bank etc.
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Streaky Bay. The first police station was built in 1862. This current Police Station was built around 1930 in local limestone.
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Swan Reach. The hall. First hall was built in 1902. This Community Hall was opened in 1933.
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Cobdogla Museum. Railway trip in one of the old two foot guage trains originally used for carting cement irrigation pipes from a factory at Loveday.
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Loxton North Primary School. One of the original wooden transportable classrooms used when this school first opened around 1950. That was when the Loxton soldier settler irrigation area was established.
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Murrayville Museum. This new building was erected on the site of the orginal Mechanics Institute which was built in 1912.
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Sea Lake Victoria. The derelict Anglican Church. Foundation stone laid 1917 by the Bishop of Ballarat.
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Loxton. The recreated Loxton Village Museum. Life in the Mallee. Blacksmiths.
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Lock on Eyre Peninsula. Mural of Albert Lock of the SA Survey Department who was killed in Belgium in 1917. The town was named after him when surveyed in 1918. On the mural is an actual letter he wrote home in 1917.
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Streaky Bay. Panorama of the old and current cemeteries. Town established 1872 and cemetery shortly thereafter.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. The rear cement rendered structure is the original 1917 Institute. The stone building is the new Institute built in 1924.
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Lake Boga
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Loxton. This small town of a few hundred settlers built this grandiose Lutheran Church in 1926. In sits in front of the original 1904 Lutheran Church. St Petri.
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Bute. An old wheat stripper manufactured by James Martins foundry and agricultural machinery in Gawler. A colourful logo. Made about 1900.
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Sandleton. On the Murray Flats. Picturesque stone farm house ruin.
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Swan Hill. Old Gothic wooden church in the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement village. This style of church was popular in the 1920s in the Victorian Mallee country.
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Lock. Eyre Peninsula. The statue honouring the hard phsyical work of the wheat lumpers who hauled the heavy bags of wheat from the farm to the railway to the port.
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Quambatook Hotel
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Patchewollock. The old wooden railway station. The start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail in the Wimmera.
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White Mallee camp 1oct2000 Adam Briner
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Swan Reach on the River Murray. Sign on old River Red Gum shows the January 2023 flood height.
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Burra. Red Banks Conservation Park near Burra where prehistoric mega fauna bones and fossils have been discovered. The mega fauna died out about 45,000 years ago.
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Eucalyptus crucis. Flowers
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Sedan South Australia. Mosaic of the Sedan flourmill. Built in 1882. Closed in 1966.
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Sherlock. The District Council of Peake had its offices in Sherlock for decades. Here is an old horse drawn 1930s road grader.
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Blanchetown. The old Blanchetown hotel built in 1858. The license came from the Whipstick Inn on Portee Station. Note old chimneys.
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Former Swan Reach hospital. It opened in 1911.
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Curramulka. Old general store from the 1880s. Now up for sale.
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Halidon. East Murray Council Chambers 1933. The Council of East Murray was formed in 1923 and met in a timber framed building until this stone one was completed in 1933.
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Streaky Bay. Come in. Limestone walls enclosed the pioneer cemetery which was established just after the town was declared in 1872.
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Sandleton. Reconstructed mallee root shed wall. A pioneer building technique used on the Murray Flats by the early German settlers. Roots available from clearing the Mallee for wheat farming
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Manangatang. The former Presbyterian Church which is now a Uniting Church. It was built in 1925.
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Curramulka. One of several long limestone walls in the town. This one beside the Methodist church built in 1912.
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Paruna. Established in 1912. The old Art Deco style bank. Probably the Savings Bank of South Australia. Built circa 1930.
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Bench from Mallee Fowl
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Wunkar in the Murray Mallee near Loxton. A state school operated here from 1925 to 1974. Most buildings were transportable weatherboard ones. One cement school room still remains on the site.
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Barmera. The old primary school . Built in 1922 as Barmera was established as a town. Now aged care flats since 1986. Fine arch links two buildings . Rooms of left addd in 1930s.
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Avoca River, Quambatook
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Sandalwood Hall. This town was established when the railway to Paruna and Renmark came through in 1913. The hall was built in 1923 with a 1972 besser block porch. Methodist church services held here.
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Mantung. Service folder of local Indian who fought for Australia during World War One. Ganessa Singh's father was a land owner and farmer of Maggea.
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Piangil Primary School
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Loxton. The Pines local historic house. Built by a local businessman overlooking the Murray River about 1912. Worth visiting.
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Underbool. The Anglican Church built around 1962. The Cooperative Union with the Uniting Church was reisntated in 2014. The adjcaent Methodist Uniting Church closed then.
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Psittaculidae - Parrot, Mulga Parrot
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Streaky Bay. The hotel motel on the esplanade opposite the jetty. Built in 1866 with second floor added in 1905. Name changed from Flinders Hotel to Streakey Bay in 1893.
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rainyday sparkles
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Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. Information Board about the Bellco Chalk factory which operated in the town from 1922 to 1930. Later operations were in Melbourne.
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Tintinara. The former Methodist Church built in 1966. Now the Uniting Church.
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Abandoned House, Mallee Highway, South Australia
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Wheatons Service Station, Mallee Highway
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Eucalyptus porosa (Mallee Box)
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Manangatang. Old store with a chequered past. Opened in 1926 as a dressamkers shop then a saddlery but for most of its time it was a butcher shop until 1991.
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Denial Bay near Ceduna. Across the bay are the Thevenard grain silos and port. McKenzies loading wharf and platform is offshore. Drays took wool to the platform for transfer onto sailing ships.
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Taplan. In the Murray Mallee. Wording on the stone memorial cairn near the former railway station site. Railway from Adelaide reached here in 1913.
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Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. A small part of the former Bellco Chalk factory of Inneston. It operated from 1922 to 1930 before moving to Melbourne.
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Bute. The old Catholic Church which is now a residence. Its foundation stone was laid in April 1894. The metal fence and cement pillars are superb.
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Tintinara. On the historic Tintinara sheep station the grave of founder William Harding who died here in 1874.
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