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Tailem Bend. This railway siding for passenger trains running between Tailem Bend and Murray Bridge was called Tailem Bend West. In 1940 an Aboriginal word was adopted. Wurtun means warm.
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. Australian Rosella parrot..
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Patchewollock. The start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail. The former Methodist Church built around 1929. Now a combined Uniting and Anglican Church.
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Pinnaroo Hotel in the Murray Mallee South Australia.
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. Dunny overlooking Lake Inneston once mined for gypsum. .
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Port Jackson Mallee Ash
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Mount Bryan East. Panorama towards Mount Bryan the highest peak with purple Salvation Jane weeds and yellow dandelion weeds.
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DSC_6807 Eucalyptus gillii, Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia
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Mount Bryan East. Panorama towards Mount Bryan the highest peak with purple Salvation Jane weeds and yellow dandelion weeds.
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Pinnaroo. The Golden Grain Hotel.
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Patchewollock. Giant galvanised iron Mallee Fowl. They live near this town in the bush and in Wyperfield National Park. This is the start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Burra copper mine. The ruins of Morphetts winding house. Built in 1861. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. It is next to Morphetts engine house which had a huge Cornish beam engine.
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Perponda. The old hall opened in 1924. A modern entrance added in the 1960. Church services were held in this hall from 1927.
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Sandalwood in the Murray Mallee. All that remains of the old railway station platform on the Tailem Bend to Renmark and Loxton railways. the siding was established in 1913.
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Port Jackson Mallee bark
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Karoonda. Pioneer Park with railway and Mallee farming structures and items. Karoonda store.
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Burra copper mine 1845 to 1877. Most miners were Cornish but some were Welsh. A Welsh square ventilation chimney.
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Elliston. Eyre Peninsula. Limestone overhang at the cliff top lookout.
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Mundoora. Site of the old Mundoorah state school which operated from 1878 to 1943.
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Borrika near Karoonda. On the left is the 1915 tin public hall and on the right is the limestone Soldiers Memorial Hall which opened in 1925.
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. New Years Eve fireworks..
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Karoonda South Australia. Silo Art by Heesco Khosnaran with beautiful sheep dog, ram and sheep, railway station and wedged tail eagle all representative of the district. .
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Burra. Red Banks Conservation Park where prehistoric mega fauna bones and fossils have been discovered. The mega fauna died out about 45,000 years ago. Baldina Creek flows through the park.
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Green Mallee, Eucalyptus viridis
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. The River Murray..
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Eucalyptus macrocarpa fallen flower cap
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Square-Fruited Mallee flower buds
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Mallee Fringe Lily base
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Coonalpyn. South Australia. In the former Ninety Mile Desert area of South Australia. Evocative images of local school children painted on the wheat silos.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Wheat crop on a showering winter afternoon in August. Redwing Farm.
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Burra. This copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. Cornish miners built these magnificent stone structures. This is Morphetts winding house built in 1861 next to Morphetts engine house built in 1858.
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Wunkar. In the Murray Mallee. The only small town on teh Wanbi to Yinkanie railway line which was laid in 1925. Closed in 1971. A Littlehampton brick kiln brick house.
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Marama on the old Peebinga railway line. Timber hall built in 1918. This stone one built in 1930. Both halls were used as the Marama School from 1914 to school closure in 1967.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts 3 engine house and winding 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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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. St Johannes Lutheran Church built in 1923. It was 1959 before all servcies were held in English. Now a private residence.
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Eudunda. Advertising on the old water tower needed for the steam engines. Frys Cocoa and Burfords Candles and Soap. Next to the Viterra grain silos. The railway closed many years ago and has been vandalised.
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Taplan. The old former general store near the railway. Now the unofficial Post Office. .
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts engine house and winding 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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Angaston. The once gracious Lindsay Park House. Architect Henry Evans. Built 1851 for George Fife Angas. Side additions date from around 1900.
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. A miners limestone cottage now available to holiday lets.
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Coonalpyn. The RSL Hall which was the original town Institute. Built in 1906. Closed 1953 and sold 1954 to the Returned Soldiers League.Once used for church services too
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Morgan on the River Murray. The Landseers warehouse supplied good for the paddle steamers that went up the Darling River to outback NSW from 1878 to 1931..
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Galga South Australia. The galvanised iron Post Office opened in 1915 and closed in 1982. It was run in conjunction with the town general store. JPG
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Karoonda South Australia. Silo Art by Heesco Khosnaran with wedge tail eagle, sheep dog, ram and sheep, and this detail of railway station all representative of the district. Detail. of sheep dog and ram. . .
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Walpeup. This 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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Active Mallee Fowl nest
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Loxton. In the Riverland. The northern facade of the 1925 built St Peters Lutheran Church ..
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Cambrai. In the local museum a rebuilt mallee root wall which was used by early settlers on the Murray Flats.
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Bute Yorke Peninsula. The Bute Railway Station Platform. All the station buildings are gone. The railway from the port of Wallaroo reached here in 1878.
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Bute. The imaginery silo art on the old grain silos. The old Bute railway station and a magnificent and colourful rooster.
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Sedan. Old ruin of a pug and native pine cottage from 1870s. Native pine, Callistris species, is white ant resistant.
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Green Mallee, Eucalyptus viridis
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Waikerie on the River Murray. Silo art on the grain silos painted by Garry Duncan. An impressionistic view of the natural environment of the River Murray.
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Paruna in the Murray Mallee of South Australia. Established 1912. This government bore and water supply was opened in 1913.
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Karoonda. The town bakery and cafe opposite the big ram. But there is a sheep in front of the bakery.
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Denial Bay on Eyre Peninsula. Mangroves 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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Mantung. The wood stove and kitchen area of the Mantung Hall. It was in usage from 1921 although no ceiling in it until 1924.
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Cowangie. The old ovens in the bakery which operated from 1912 to 1952. These ovens probably built by the Metters factory in Adelaide.
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Burra. Copper miners dug rooms into the bank of Burra Creek in the late 1840s as homes for their families. Some still remain. This one with a stone entrance.
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Mount Bryan. The iconic ruin near Mount Bryan and north of Burra. Used on a Midnight Oil album cover. Columbia Records released it in 1987. Diesel and Dust. Beautiful sensuous hills of the mid north pastoral country of South Australia.
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