Pergandes Sheep Yards & On

Pergandes Sheep Yards & On

Started out this morning “Very Cold” 3 degrees when ready off to the “Pergandes Sheep Yards” we went.

Very much like Stonehenge. It is marvellous what a person can do with what`s at hand. The ingenuity that people come up with and how to transport and shift bits.

These stone slab sheep yards are a good example of this. Not only have they picked up the already loose slabs off the bedrock they also used fire and water to crack off more slabs. Then shift them and erect them by hand. WOW.

The photo`s don’t do the old buildings justice, from the ruins and footings of the old shearing shed and house, you could see that as extra was required they built on very impressive!!

The height of the slabs surprised us some were so big.

Traveling on to the town of Trayning and had a drive around lots of closed down businesses and houses for sale, not one shop open that we could see.

A lot of very nice wheat crops still, though an odd few not looking so good. In the town of Kununoppin thinking it would be a blink and you`ll miss it, but no. There is still a hospital, an electrician with a shop front office, all in all not a bad little town.

Had morning tea then wandered along the main street taking photos. Back at the caravan there was a gentleman on a ride on mower cutting the weeds about 2 foot high, who had finished the bit he was doing so came over for a chat, gave us a bit of history of the town. Turned out where he was mowing was the site of the original hotel and the bowling green now just a bare block.

Next stop Nungarin Caravan Park. A nice new one built at the back of the sports centre. Settled in after a long discussion with the shire office people about what is happening in the area, there is a meeting about NBN and telephone`s mobile, so me being me (Tim) said “Ok this will mean that I will be able to get digital TV all over now, when this mobile stuff is put in”. I was looked at as if I had horns growing out of my head and was told “Yes the country get everything out here; you just ask the pollies? All in all not a bad looking town with quite a bit of history and things to see.

More to come.