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Port Gibbon near Cowell. World War Two defensive installations called igloos. To be used for radar and air raid shelters. Designed to protect Whyalla from shipping attack.
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Cummins. Mosaics in the SAR South Australian Railways themed park. The railway refreshment room ladies.
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Streaky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. EP cruises. Razor fish opened ready for cleaning. Caught for our lunch at Cape Bauer..
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Cowell. Silo Art. A ruined Eyre Peninsula homestead and a Port Lincoln parrot also known as an Australian ringnecked parrot.
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Kimba sculptures of explorer Edward John Eyre and Aboirginal guide Wylie. Unveiled in 2011.
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Cummins. The stone wall in this building is part of the 1930 flourmill. Cummins Milling still provides flour for the local bakery.
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Ceduna. The modern and upmarket Foreshore Hotel right on the esplanade overlooking beautiful Murat Bay.
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Port Lincoln. The Soldiers Memorial Hall built in 1936 in Art Deco style. It replaced the 1879 institute. It later became the Port Lincoln Civic Hall.
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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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Port Lincoln. Captain Matthew Flinders who charted Boston Harbour in 1802 with his cat named Trim.
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Ceduna. The National Trust Museum. Map of the Maralinga the atomic bomb testing site of the British in the 1950s. Seven atomic bombs set off between 1956 to 1963. Site still contaminated.
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Cummins. Mosaics in the SAR South Australian Railways themed park. The bronze statue of a wheat lumper.
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Cummins. The former Presbyterian Church. First church in Cummins. Opened October 1912. Closed 1921. Became the Masonic Hall 1926. Now a private residence.
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Cowell on Franklin Harbour. The fancy ceiling of the Cowell Institue which was built in 1912.. The old 1892 Institute was demolished in 1911.
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Smoky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. The Smoky Bay government school room sign 1909 to 1959. Now disused
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Kimba. Two stunning iron sculptures of explorer Edward John Eyre and his Aborginal companion Wylie. Unveiled in 2011.
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Whyalla. The Whyalla Hotel built of local red iron stone in 1933. It was extended in 1940 and is now an apartment hotel.
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Whyalla. The shady veranda of the stone section of Mount Laura homestead. The rear section was built in 1910 and this front section in 1922.
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Minnipa. When the town was established in 1916 they needed water so the government built a small stone and concrete channel around the giant inselberg known as Pildappa Rocks. The water was piped to the town.
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Lock. Eyre Peninsula. The old railway yards and a section of platform where the railway station once stood. Now the Viterra grain silo storage area.
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Calca near Bairds Bay and Sceale Bay on Eyre Peninsula. The old institute public hall. It opened in 1892. A state school was conducted in the hall from 1892 to 1939.
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Port Lincoln. Old stone cottage on the Bishop family property near Mill Cottage.
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Ceduna.The interior of the Merghiny Well Methodist Church. Erected in 1911. Moved to Thevenard as its Methodist Church in 1952. Now in the grounds of the Ceduna National Trust Museum.
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Whyalla. looking across the circle of the new rond Whyalla jetty. It is illuminated with coloured lights and night.
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Whyalla. View of the steel works and the former shipbuilding works from Hummock Hill.
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Minnipa. The town was established in 1916 and they needed water so the government built a small stone and concrete channel around the giant inselberg known as Pildappa Rocks. The water was piped to the town.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is this photograph of a colourful giant cuttlefish which live and mate off the shores of Whyalla in Spencers Gulf. An internationally recognised diver's dream world.
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Whyalla. Lutine House built as office chambers probably for lawyers in the 1930s. Constructed of local red iron stone. Classical style pillasters and great symmetry.
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Shepherds Hut
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Lake Hamilton. Eyre Peninsula. Shady trees around the old pioneer cemetery.
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Cummins. Eyre Peninsula. Behind the trees and railway line is the Cummins Hotel built in 1911.
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Calca on Eyre Peninsula near Streaky Bay. Granite outcrops where the soil has weathered away leaving inselbergs standing tall above the paddocks.
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Tumby Bay. Two murals on the town's art trail.
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Coffin Bay. Eyre Peninsula. SA. Oyster pots that swing with the tides in the leases in the bay.
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Whyalla. One of the old BHP galvanised iron houses used by its workers. Built in Gay Street around 1910 to 1914. Now in the Mt Laura Homestead National Trust Museum.
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Koongawa. The bright white stone memorial to John Darke who was killed by Aborigines in 1844 when he was exploring Eyre Peninsula for pastoral country. It was erected in 1944.
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Poonindie Aboriginal Mission near Port Lincoln. Mission established 1850 the church cum school room built 1854 1855. It is now St Matthews Anglican Church since 1896 when the mission closed.
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Whyalla. Mount Laura homestead. This sheep station was established in the 19th century. The galvanised iron section was built in 1910. These stone front rooms were added in 1922..
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Cummins. Mosaics in the SAR South Australian Railways themed 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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Cowell on Eyre Peninsula. Silo art in action as the artist completes his art work on the Viterra silos at Cowell in September 2019. The artist is Austin Moncrieff. The local cameleer is Lionel Deer with his camel Diamantina.
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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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Near Minnipa. Chilpuddie Hill. One a several giant granite inselbergs in the Minnipa district. Near the entrance to the Gawler Ranges.
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Ceduna. Old wooden hearse from the early 20th century which was pulled by horses. In the Ceduna National Trust 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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Coffin Bay. Oyster leases close to the shore and the town.
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Streaky Bay. Panorama of the old and current cemeteries. Town established 1872 and cemetery shortly thereafter.
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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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Streaky Bay. The Catholic Church and tower built in 1912 and still in use.
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Wirrulla. Advertising on this Mini Mart and old garage building.
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Bagster near Penong on Eyre Peninsula. Site of the Bagster School 1897 to 1910 and the former Methodist Church built 1913 and demolished in 1968. The Hundred of Bagster near Penong was declared in 1896 when wheat farmers took up properties.
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Minnipa Eyre Peninsula. Part of the granite inselberg called Pildappa Rocks. It has eroded with a wave like formation. Similar to Wave Rock in Western Australia and Uluru near Alice Springs.
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Cowell. Eyre Peninsula. The Anglican Church built in 1909 and on the other corner the Masonic Lodge also built in 1909.
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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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Cummins. The Gothic Methodist Church built in 1912 and still in use as the Cummins Uniting Church.
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Port Lincoln. Boston Harbour with the Viterra grain silos across the harbour. Port Lincoln handles around 40% of South Australia's grain harvest.
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Port Lincoln. The first railway station was built in 1907 when a railway to Edillillie was built. This two storey stone station was built in 1927.
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Sleaford Bay Eyre Peninsula. Shags or Cormorants on a rock.
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Ceduna. National Trust Museum. Old enamel advertising sign for Vincent Powders for headaches.
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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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