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Port Lincoln. Pretty Mill cottage near the old flourmill in Port Lincoln. Built for the Bishop family who arrived in Lincoln in 1839 on the brig named Dorset.
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Cowell. A few miles out of town is the Elbow Hill Methodist Church. Foundation stone laid by Mrs Wheeler 28 Sept 1909. Land for church donated by Mr Wheeler. Closed 1973 and sold by church in 1986..
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Whyalla. Mount Laura homestead. This sheep station was established in the 19th century. The rear galvanised iron section was built in 1910. These stone front rooms were added in 1922..
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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. A diver's dream world.
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Wirrulla Eyre Peninsula. The grand facade of the Memorial Hall built in 1926.
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Elliston. The local supermarket and bakery.
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The Road West
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Cowell Eyre Peninsula. The former Bank of Adelaide. Now a residence. Built in 1908.
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Elliston. Rocks at the entrance to the harbour. Part of the dramatic coastline of Eyre Peninsula
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Colton Eyre Peninsula. St Aiden's Catholic church was built in 1894. It is now demolished but the attached cemetery remains on a hill behind the church site.
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Mount Wudinna. Granite weathering on large inselberg.
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Thevenard silos and port from Ceduna on Eyre Peninsula South Australia.
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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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Whyalla. Viewing point of the city's new round yetty.
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Cummins .St Andrews Catholic Church built in 1963.
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Cummins. Mosaics in the SAR South Australian Railways themed park. Railway porter.
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Kimba. The old General Store from the 1920s. In the town village museum.
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Chandada Eyre Peninsula. The first government school opened in 1919. Around 1928 the school moved to this site south of the Public Hall. It closed in 1963. The building has been modernised.
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Kimba. In the historical village on the edge of town is a display of old telephone and electricity glass and pottery insulators.
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Lock. Eyre Peninsula. On the left is the old railway station office erected 1937. On right is the former Tooligie state school erected 1933. Both now in the Lock Museum.
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Whyalla. The Royal Australian Navy frigate the Whyalla was built here in 1941 by BHP. It is now part of the Whyalla Maritime Museum. Entrance to the museum is beneath the Whyalla.
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Port Lincoln Eyre Peninsula. Old fireplace in Mikkira station homestead which dates from 1842.
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Cummins. Mosaics in the SAR South Australian Railways themed park. Public toilets entrance.
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Port Lincoln marina. The memorial to boatmen and fishermen.
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Mount Wudinna Eyre Peninsula South Australia. It is a granite inselberg.
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Cummins. The state school began in the Institute in 1912. This stone and brick school room was built in 1921. Now used as a kindergarten. This is the eastern facade.
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Carol J
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Kimba. Eyre Peninsula. Looking over the town with its silo art from the local lookout.
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Cummins. Mosaics in the SAR South Australian Railways themed park. Great little chickens.
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From Calca
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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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Elliston. Eyre Peninsula. The 2018 installed Aboriginal memorial on the cliffs to acknowledge the possible existence of a massacre 1849 but certainly the existence of white violence against Aboriginal people in the 19th century.
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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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Poonindie. The old 1854 school room now part of the Poonindie Anglican Church. It began as an Aboriginal mission school.
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Cummins on Eyre Peninsula. All that remains of the old railway station platforms in the rail yards.
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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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Port Lincoln . The Courthouse built in 1862
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Cummins. The state school began in the Institute in 1912. This stone and brick school room was built in 1921. Now used as a kindergarten.
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Streaky Bay. The memorial carin to explorer Edward John Eyre who camped here in 1840 at the waterhole near this memorial.
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Streaky Bay. Water in the waterhole where explorer Edward John Eyre camped in 1840. Eyre Peninsula has no lakes or rivers so water was crucial to their survival.
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Elliston. Eyre Peninsula. The old Post Office built in 1880 with a mirror image Police Station built behind it at the same time.
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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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Streaky Bay. The town was established in 1872. But the first police station and these old cells or lockups were built in 1862.
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Lock. The old Police Station. Built in 1938. The first policeman was appointed to Lock in 1934.
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Mount Dutton Bay on Eyre Peninsula. The former Methodsit Church which is now a fine residence.
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Mount Dutton Bay wool shed on Eyre Peninsula. It was built in 1875 to store wool bales. Now a well sited and great cafe and gallery.
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Minnipa. Colourful sweet peas galore.
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Denial Bay. The Lutheran cemetery. Headstones of district pioneers with inscriptions in Old German script.
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Lock. Grain town on Eyre peninsula. The town statue is of wheat lumpers before bulk handling and silos were introduced in the 1960s.
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Mount Dutton Bay wool shed built in 1875. These motorised wooden panels act like a fan to circulate air in the shed which is now a fine cafe. Known as punka wallahs from India and Pakistan .
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Murphy's Haystacks
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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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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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Streaky Bay. Eyre Peninsula. EP cruises. Grilled Razor fish and cooked blue swimmer crabs . Caught for our lunch at Cape Bauer..
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Calca on Eyre Peninsula. This fine stone Catholic Church was built in 1929 and is still being used for services. It is next to the Calca Hall and former state school.
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Lock. Eyre Peninsula. Advertising on buildings. Farmers Union of South Australia had a wheat buyer in Lock for many decades. Their old logo on a store which is now an opportunity or charity shop. .
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum an old movie projector with a poster for the film Gone With the film Wind behind it. . .
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Minnipa. Eyre Peninsula. Sturt Desert peas.
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Penong. This windmill with sails that flatten in the wind was made in Adelaide by Horwoods between 1884 and 1894. It was an Adelaide Challenge Windmill. It has a 16 feet sail span and was first erected at Anna Creek Station.
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