Ian Ada
Across the Nullabor they saw silo art on the Eyre Peninsula, southern white whales at Head of Bight, parts of the highway used as runways for the Royal Flying Doctor and the old telegraph station at Eucla which used to employ 70 people in its heyday. A section of the highway is dead straight for ninety miles.
The trip included several magnificent national parks. At Murujuga National Park they saw petroglyphs, engravings on rocks 37,000 years old and a modern, enormous LNG plant only a few kilometres away. Everything about WA mining is massive, with driverless iron ore trains 2.5km long running every 30 minutes, tip trucks holding 225 tonnes of iron ore and the Kalgoorlie super pit which is 600 metres deep.
Ian’s talk finished with a montage of all the wildflowers photographed on the trip.