 Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine in morning light
Returning from Esperance on 4 December we passed the mine site again.
|  Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine Site
A glimpse while speeding past.
|  Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine Site
Mining scar on the landscape.
|  Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine Site
No attempts at re-vegetation.
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 Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine Site
The scar on the hillside can be seen for miles.
|  BP Service Station Ravensthorpe
|  Junction of Morgans St and Queen St Ravensthorpe
Taken from BP.
|  Grain Silos at the top of Morgans St
Taken from BP.
|
 Queen St going to the Hospital
Taken from BP.
|  Built in 1906
Currently used as 'Ravensthorpe Community Centre'. In former years has been a Hotel and Boarding House.
|  The Seat under the Hotel Verandah
Palace Hotel Ravensthorpe, built 1907.
|  Lovely Jacaranda Tree in Bloom
Telecommunications Tower at rear of Old Post Office.
|
 Tall Trees of Spence Street
|  The House where I lived from 1967-1974
|  Spence St looking down hill
Real Estate for Sale.
|  More new Houses in Spence Street
Uphill view.
|
 The Old Dunny Lane
Taken from Hotel end and looking towards Telecommunications Tower at Old Post Office. Most of this was un-fenced when we lived there.
|  Morgans Street
Busy main street with many Road Trains passing through.
|  No more Grocery Shopping here!
Shop 'For Lease'. This used to be the Co-op.
|  Originally the Westpac Bank
This was built for the Westpac Bank while we were there, now it says 'Everything or Nothing'....
|
 Carlisle St slopes down to the Valley
|  Post Office corner Morgans St & Carlisle St
|  Grain Storage
Passing the wheat bins as we drove out of town on the way to Wave Rock.
|  Welcome to Wave Rock at Hyden
Wave Rock is 4km east of Hyden in a 280ha bush reserve, and about 340km south-east of Perth.
|
 Hippos Yawn near Wave Rock
This unusually shaped granite formation has eroded to the shape of a yawning hippo.
|  Hippos Yawn
Tourists eating lunch in the mouth of Hippos Yawn.
|  Granite Formations
Walking the trail from Hippos Yawn to Wave Rock.
|  Emu Feathers caught in a Branch
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 Bright Orange Berries
|  Emu Feathers
Presume the Emu got its feathers caught when eating the orange berries.
|  Slabs of Granite cut by Nature
|  Sheoaks at the base of Wave Rock
|
 Indentations in the Granite
|  Ornate Dragon Lizard on Granite Rock
Ctenophorus ornatus.
|  Lobe-Leaf Hop-Bush
Dodonaea lobulata.
|  Ornate Dragon Lizard still on guard
Ctenophorus ornatus.
|
 Granite Kunzea (Kunzea pulchella)
|  Granite Kunzea (Kunzea pulchella)
|  Rock Sheoak (Allocasuarina heugeliana)
Close to the foot of the rock the soil is made richer by decomposition of lichens and mosses, so the tallest Sheoaks grow here.
|  Mosses and Lichen on the Rock
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