Newman rock near Balladonia.
A morning walk around this amazing Rock - around and on. It seems to cover a lot of ground - huge. We saw a "fog rainbow' no, colour, just white but shaped like a rainbow.
A morning walk around this amazing Rock - around and on. It seems to cover a lot of ground - huge. We saw a "fog rainbow' no, colour, just white but shaped like a rainbow.
First stop today is Frasers Range Sheep Station and the next golf hole. Sheep's Back, Hole number 13). Frasers Range is a camping area (quite large) as well as a station. The Fraser Range area is home to the world's largest Eucalyptus Hardwood Forest. The blackbutt, salmon gum and gimlet trees are a spectacular sight, often 20 to 30 metres tall, they attract an amazing collection of wildlife to the region. The Station was first settled in 1872, making it the first to be founded in the Nullabor Plain area. It's comprised of vast open grass flats, upon which the shepherds moved sheep over 100 years ago. The shepherds moved their herds from flat to flat before returning to the Fraser Range homestead for shearing annually. It's quite a scenic spot.
Lots of kangaroos and a huge flock of galahs on the ground seemingly eating seed. We wondered if the sheep station folk may have spread some seeds around to encourage them for when they take tourists on farm tours.
Driving through the range was a nice change from the Plains country across the Nullarbor. Lots of tall granite hills, the highest being Mt Pleasant (579m).
Camp tonight was at Norseman caravan park after lunch and a stop at the information centre (for information about Norseman). We set up camp then did washing and showers and hair washing - wow. We hadn't wanted to use much water when crossing the Nullarbor as didn't know when we would be able to fill up.
Later in the afternoon, we headed to the Norseman Golf Club (just through the fence of the Caravan Park) for two more holes (Hole 14 - Golden Horse and Hole 15 - Ngadju). Hole 14 named after Norsemasn's Golden Horse. According to local legend, the town of Norseman was named after a horse. It is said that in 1894 a horse named Hardy Norseman was tethered to a tree for the night by its owner, Laurie Sinclair. Upon returning to his horse Sinclair had the good fortune to discover that Norseman had unearthed a gold nugget. Since then a statue has been erected in honour of Norseman. Today Gold Mining continues to be a major activity with reports that the Norseman fields have produced over 5 million ounces of the precious yellow metal. Hole 15 named after the local indigenous people. "You are now standing on Ngadju ground and the Ngadju people are the traditional owners of the land." The lake near the course is called Warrarnbunna meaning the place of the long ground. The eucalypt forest around is the largest woodland forest on the earth and called the Great Western Woodland.
The royal wedding is on tonight (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle). Margaret and Arthur have their TV set up outside their van. Beer o'clock while we watched the wedding.
Later in the afternoon, we headed to the Norseman Golf Club (just through the fence of the Caravan Park) for two more holes (Hole 14 - Golden Horse and Hole 15 - Ngadju). Hole 14 named after Norsemasn's Golden Horse. According to local legend, the town of Norseman was named after a horse. It is said that in 1894 a horse named Hardy Norseman was tethered to a tree for the night by its owner, Laurie Sinclair. Upon returning to his horse Sinclair had the good fortune to discover that Norseman had unearthed a gold nugget. Since then a statue has been erected in honour of Norseman. Today Gold Mining continues to be a major activity with reports that the Norseman fields have produced over 5 million ounces of the precious yellow metal. Hole 15 named after the local indigenous people. "You are now standing on Ngadju ground and the Ngadju people are the traditional owners of the land." The lake near the course is called Warrarnbunna meaning the place of the long ground. The eucalypt forest around is the largest woodland forest on the earth and called the Great Western Woodland.
The royal wedding is on tonight (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle). Margaret and Arthur have their TV set up outside their van. Beer o'clock while we watched the wedding.
Dinner at the Norseman pub.
