Heading East

 

Now that we’re heading east from Geraldton we are starting the long journey home. 

We passed through some wildflower country and several old gold mining towns.  The wreath flowers beside the road near Pindar were spectacular. They only grow in large numbers along a 300 metre stretch of road about 10k north of the town.

The towns dating from the 1890s are dying even though there is plenty of gold.  The gold is now mined by FIFO workers who mostly stay and eat in the onsite accommodation provided by the mining companies.  Unfortunately the slowly dying towns show little evidence of the gold and other sought after minerals that surround them.

Camped among the wildflowers at Tenindewa

Wreath flowers along the road near Pindar

Nana and the grandchildren

A wreath flower

And another one




Fringed Lily

The entrance to Jokers Tunnel - dug in the 1890s to mine gold

G & T time

A lonely grave of a miner killed by a rock fall in 1899

Camped at Lake Mason Homestead - an old sheep station

 

Comments

  1. Willie19 September 2021 at 18:11

    Wildflowers amazing. I like the G&T photo too.
    Willie

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  2. debob20 September 2021 at 01:43

    I think Kelly needs to keep her kids out of the Sun.
    Bobmac

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  3. Catherine20 September 2021 at 18:49

    Gorgeous wildflowers and interesting commentary. Have a safe journey home. xxoo

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