Gawler is 54km north of Adelaide – it is a historic town. St George’s Anglican Church in Gawler was the place of a direct ancestor’s marriage in 1854.

Main street in Gawler

The War Memorial in Gawler was officially dedicated on 11 November 2018, the 100^th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

“The Town of Gawler and the RSL decided to engage a different approach to a War Memorial. The sculpture will be a place where a person of any religion, age, race and gender can identify with and reflect on family or lost friends. The hand can be given in friendship, and also it can be used to comfort and to love, the hand can also console, the hand also has been used to condemn and to hurt but this memorial will show that the hand can rest and be at peace.” Paul Little, RSL Gawler Sub-Branch President October 2018

Farming land north of Gawler near Tarlee

The Barrier Highway at its southern end

Main street in Burra

The “Midnight Oil” ruin at Firewood Creek north of Burra

Wind turbines near Mount Bryan

Terowie has kept its heritage listed main street from the 1880s

The Terowie railway station

The platform is famous as General McArthur first used his famous “I shall return” speech here in 1942 while transferring trains.

Over Goyder’s Line into semi-arid conditions

Big Dice near Manna Hill

The Barrier Highway

The soils turn redder the closer we get to Broken Hill

The Indian Pacific rail line.

Wide open spaces

The Pinnacles mean we are close to Broken Hill

Dry creek bed at Living Desert

Deaf finish wattle –  grim bush humour  – supposedly the last plant to die in the drought

Mulga on stony hilltops at Living Desert west of Broken Hill

Red kangaroo

Mulga

Wind turbines on the range near Silverton

Sculptures at the Living Desert

Full moonrise

Slow drive back into town

The motel cat

ANZAC memorial in Argent Street

The Palace Hotel in Broken Hill where a scene from Priscilla Queen of the Desert was filmed.