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Waikerie. Jimmy Dvate painted this Regent Parrot on the old grain silos at Waikerie. His work depicts wild life of the River Murray.
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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.
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Streaky Bay. Wild coastline near Streaky Bay.
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Tailem Bend. On the River Murray. Former Methodist Church built in the towns heyday in 1927. It replaced the original Methodist Church of 1900. Now a residence.
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Bowhill on the River Murray. The old Lutheran Church
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Mount Bryan East. Ruins of the Methodist Church built in 1913. Sir Hubert Wilkins attended the school next to this church.
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Cowangie Methodist Church. Erected in 1926. Still in use. Now the Uniting Church. This is a side view with the ventilators on the roof.
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Cobdogla. Vines seen from the Cobdogla to Loveday railway line. The line opened in 1921 and closed in the 1960s.
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Blue Mallee, E. polybracta
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The once beautiful Eudunda Railway Station in South Australia. The line opened to here in 1878. It is now terribly vandalised. What a pity and a shame on the government. Love the gables and air vents.
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Mount Mary. Near Morgan on the Kapunda to Morgan railway line. The railway reached Mount Mary in 1878. Two joined stone railway workers houses are all that remain of the railway station. .
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Millendella or Milendella. The Lutheran Church built in 1893 and still in use with its bell tower and bell.. A Mallee settlement at the eastern foot of the Mt Lofty Ranges.
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Coonalpyn. One of many community paintings in the Tunnel Vision project - beautifying the railway pedestrian underpass.The seasons.
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Burra. The womens exercise yard and outside dunny at 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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Tree - IMG_1242
by Nicola since 1972

Dutton near Truro. The buttressed wall of the Dutton blacksmith shop. It was built in 1875 by Carl Schmidt. His descendants ran the business into the 1940s.
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Galga South Australia. The galvanised iron Post Office opened in .1915 and closed in 1982
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Mallee Fringe Lily flower cluster
by John Tann

Morgan. On the River Murray. The old railway turntable. The Kapunda to Morgan railway reached the town in 1878.
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Rufous Treecreeper
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Mendooran. Pretty white Australian native flowers in Goonoo National Park
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Coonalpyn. The Coonalpyn Congregational Church built in l1927. Congregational services began in 1907 in the old institute in the street behind this church. That institute is now the RSL Hall.
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Denial Bay on Eyre Peninsula. Stone cairn memorial to the pioneer of the district William McKenzie 1844 to 1906.
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Parrakie. The stone cairn for the original Parrakie government School wich was held in the Institute from 1910 to 1932 when a new government school was built.
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Paruna South Australia. Side view of the former Methodist Church built in 1935.
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Curramulka on Yorke Peninsula. Ruins of an old 19th century stone farm house.
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Mercunda. The Mercunda hall and state school is now in ruins. Firepalce was needed for the state school. It operated from 1921 to 1956. Also used as a Congregational Church.
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Cross Roads. Near Mannum. Interior of the 1901 built Cross Roads School. It closed in 1950 and is now a museum.
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Streaky Bay on Eyre Peninsula.
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Sandleton. Picturesque stone farm house ruin probably built when these areas were opened for farming in the mid 1870s. On the edge of Goyders Line.
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Eucalyptus macrocarpa tree
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Eucalyptus porosa (Mallee Box)
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Sedan. Old pug and pine cottage which is now 140 years old and still standing.
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Dutton South Australia. The interior of St Johns Lutheran Church built in 1871. Scripture texts still in old German script. .
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Sandalwood. Old dray beside the Sandalwood hall which was built in 1923.
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Borrika in the Murray Mallee. The original tin public hall. It opened in 1915. It became the supper room of the new stone hall when it opened in 1925.
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Sandalwood. Old buildings and additions to the general store built in 1926. Was probably used fro storing wheat and barley .
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Walpeup. The old Methodist Church erected in 1937. It is now the Anglican Uniting Church within the Mallee Cooperative.
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Tintinara. The old homestead and outbuildings. Built around 1865 when William Harding and George Bunn acquired the property.
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Tintinara. The western facade of the Lutheran Church built in 1975.
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Burra. Baldina Creek crossing at Red Banks Conservation park. March 2021.
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Bower between Eudunda and Morgan. St Pauls Lutheran cemetery. Mallee country.
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Tintinara. The pretty gable ended Anglican Church built in 1959. First Anglican Church completed in 1914
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Coonalpyn. Art mosaics outside the public toilet block near the Silo Art. The echidna.
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Brim. Three of the farmers painted onto the grain silos there. This is part of the Wimmera Silo Art Trail.
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Waikerie in the Riverland. The town name means rain moths in the local Aboriginal langugage. Hence the mosaic rain moths around the town. It is not a butterfly.
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Eucalyptus ×balanites T
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Sheep in Redwing Farm. Three legged sheep. Where has that leg gone
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Sedan. Pilgrim Zion Lutheran church was built in 1923. It replaced an earlier 1873 church.
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Karoonda. Railway Station and grain silos. The railway line opened in 1913. This station is a few years later than that.
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Barmera. Established in 1920. The old Post Office.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. The first school opened inthe Institute in 1917. This new government school opened 25 July 1927. Built in stone with red brick quoins now all painted over. It closed in 1967..
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Curramulka. Information board and old rusty plough on the site of Luxmoore's wheat store demolished in 1972.
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Sedan South Australia. The corner general store and harness maker shops. Both built around 1880 with chamfered corner entrances.
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Fields of Fire
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Eucalyptus porosa (Mallee Box)
by expom2uk

Karoonda South Australia. Framed Silo Art by Heesco Khosnaran wedge tail eagle, sheep dog, ram and railway station all representative of the district. At night monthly changing illumination art projected onto central unpainted part..
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Loxton. On the River Murray . A town based on wheat and sheep farmers and horticulturalists and viticulturalists. Street sculpture of sheep with steel wool..
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Tintinara. Eight of the original 16 shearing bays in the Tintinara sheep station wool shed built in 1865.
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Green Mallee, E. viridis
by Leaf by Leaf