Four station country pictures taken circa 1983
Following are four general pictures from around the sheep station country east of Morawa and south of Yalgoo that were taken circa 1983. Excluding the first one, I think this little collection were taken on an outing around Barnong Station.
This first shot, I am reasonably sure, was taken at the old Lochada Homestead.
One thing is for sure, this old pump-up bowser would not be there now. Today these bowsers fetch around $15,000 in reasonable condition. Somebody would have for sure made off with this beauty long ago.
My friend Russell is sure to correct me if I am wrong here, but I think this is a Ford Cortina TE 4.1 Wagon ploughing through that mud puddle on one of the better maintained station roads/tracks.
I am reasonably sure this is the road/track from Yallabyne Well to the Yalgoo Road. That being so then this shot was likely taken facing east and the car is heading back towards the Yalgoo Road.
Even though I am almost certainly the photographer, I cannot narrow down where this next picture was taken much more than, I am thinking, it is on Barnong to the east of the Yalgoo Road.
I am going to say this shot was taken facing west, hence then we are travelling east, and the shadow from the lead car supports this thinking.
The more I think about it the more sure I become that we are heading for Cattle Outcamp Well on Barnong Station. Hopefully, in among all these pictures I will find a shot of Cattle Outcamp Well because it is an interesting spot.
I know exactly where this ‘cave’ in the next shot is. Well, it’s kind of a cave. Almost. Maybe.
This is on the west side of the Yallabyne Well road and it is known locally as Kanga Cave—being short for ‘Kangaroo Cave’. I’m not too sure why because the two times that I came across critters resting out of the midday sun in this cave it was goats on both occasions. Maybe the goats took it over from the kangaroos.
I would just point out that these pictures are from scanned/digitised slides and while I have spent some time cleaning each one up, colour balancing them, and enhancing them as best I can, there is only so much you can do to ‘recover’ a digitised 35mm slide.