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Burra. broken glass topped walls of Redruth Gaol built in 1856 in this great copper mining town. Closed in 1894. 1897 became reformatory for girls till 1922. Now a museum. .
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Streaky Bay. The Kelsh pine and pug cottage from the 1880s now located in the Streaky Bay National Trust Museum.
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Ngarkat Conservation Park. The landscapes are mainly sandy heath lands or Mallee scrub or a mix of both as here near Pertendi Hut site.
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Wasleys. Old advertising on the old blacksmith's shop. Sign for Mobiloil company petrol.
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Pilchera Bore School site in the Murray Mallee east of Borrika. School yard was planted with Sugar Gums as was traditional in South Australia.
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Coonalpyn South Australia. The Superb Australian blue Fairy Wren. Done in a mosaic on a besser block wall in front of the public toilets. near the silo art. Part of Coonalpyn's art trail.
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Coonalpyn. The Coonalpyn Congregational Church built in local limestone in 1927. Congregational services began in 1907 in the old institute.
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Peake. The current Post Office
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Waikerie in the South Australian Riverland on the River Murray. Silo art on the old wheat silos. Depictions of River Murray life done by two different artists in two different styles.
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Tailem Bend. Former railway town on the River Murray. The 1926 Anglican Church in local limetstone. Unsual brick work arched over small rectangular windows. (2)
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Streaky Bay. A sand sculpture on the esplanade.
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Green Mallee, Eucalyptus viridis
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Brim. St Paul's Anglican Church. Now closed and privately owned.
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Ouyen. The fine red brick Presbyterian Church of 1922. The timber framed Methodist Church of 1913 is attached at the rear.
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Tailem Bend. The Catholic church. Built in 1924.
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Myrla near Wunkar. This Lutheran Church was built by the Yinkanie railway line. It passed the church rear fence. Church built 1924 and railway line completed in 1925. Siding called Parrelum a wheat variety. Soon changed to Myrla. .
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Piebald sheep with twin lambs. One black and one white. Redwing Farm. Lunch time. The black lamb is hard to see.
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Tintinara sheep station. The original open hearth fire and stove area of the shearer's quarters. The quarters were built in 1865.
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Underbool Methodist Church built in 1925. It became a Uniting Church in 1977. Closed in 2014 when the Anglican and Uniting Church formed a cooperative. Now a residence.
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Maggea. The institute hall which opened in 1919. Now closed and privately owned. A state school was conducted in the hall from 1919 to 1967.
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Chestnut-rumped Thornbill (0025)
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Curramulka on Yorke Peninsula. Old farm house and shed ruins.
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Old Women
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Streaky Bay on Eyre Peninsula South Australia. Two storey building on right is the Streaky Bay Hotel.
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Tailem Bend. In the centre is the old railway turntable with radiating railway lines. A 14 bay Roundhouse was erected here by Railway Commissioner William Webb in 1926. Now old carriages stored here.
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Port Jackson Mallee Ash flower
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts engine 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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Peake. Polly's Well. Sunk in 1877.
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Coonalpyn. All that remains of the Coonalpyn Railway Station - the platform and a crane.
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Karoonda. Anglican Church. Built in 1926. Badly cracked.
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Murrayville. the Lutheran church built in 1923 and still in use.
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Patchewollock. Detail of the Mallee farmer on the local silo. This is part of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Burra SA This great copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. This is Morphetts three story stone Cornish style engine house. Built 1858. Restored in 1986.
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Walpeup. This grand 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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Burra copper mine. The ruins of the ore dressing sheds built in 1870. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877.In the background a square Welsh ventilation chimney
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Eucalyptus pyriformis
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Clements Gap in the Hummock Ranges. This plaque marks the site of the Clements Gap government School. 1892 to closure in 1942. The first school opened in 1880 and clsoed 1882. Some 393 students attended the school to 1942..
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Waikerie on the River Murray Jimmy Dvate silo art of a giant blue yabby from the river.
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Burra. The copper mining company at Kooringa built a square of joined miners cottages for their workers around 1850. Paxton Square is now used for holiday accommodation. .
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Murrayville in the Victorian Mallee. Built in the 1920s and still operating. Even with misspelling of accommodation.
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Wasleys. Old advertising on the old blacksmith's shop. Plume petrol at the kerb. .
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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.
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Nhill. Bronze statue of two Mallee fowls on a replica of the large bush nest that they make to incubate their eggs.
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Yorke Peninsula. Innes Dhilba Guuranda National Park. At West Cape there are panormaic views of Pondalowie Bay the second bay to the north. Other views look towars Kangaroo Island, Althorpe Island, Middle Island etc.
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Mallee Bull
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Bakara east of Nildotti. Zadow's Bakara general store and farm house. The store operated from 1933 to 1987.
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Sandalwood. In the Murray Mallee. Ruins of the state school built in 1928. Closed in 1944. Blackboard on all four walls
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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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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Redwing Farm The farm established around 1875.This old stone shearers or shepherds cottage looks like it dates from around 1860 to 1870.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. The first Methodist Church in Weetulta opened in 1887. A new stone church was erected in 1906. This modern church hall was built in 1954.
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Coonalpyn. The Former Savings Bank of South Australia with the gold bank lettering still above the doors. Built around 1960 after the Ninety Mile Desert became the Coonalpyn Downs.
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Denial Bay near Ceduna and Thevenard. The jetty built in 1909.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Donkeys at Redwing Farm.
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Tiparra on Yorke Pemimsula. Canola crop in the last week of August near Tiparra Lutheran Church.
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Inneston. Old gypsum mining town. They mined Lake Inneston seen in photo. Gypsum mined 1913 to 1930. Town of Inneston is now a ghost town. Visible the ruins of the general store. Town closed 1930. Now Innes National Park .
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Sanderston. Memorial to local soldiers who died in World War One or World War Two.
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Denial Bay on Eyre Peninsula. 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. In the Murray Mallee. The stage of the Mantung Hall which opened in 1921. This hall was also the state school.
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Paruna South Australia. The fine limestone Anglican Church built in 1925. Now a private home.
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