Well here we are in Week 20 of our 52 week tour around Western Australia, and we continue our tour of the wheat-belt.
This week we are in Bruce Rock - in the central wheatbelt. This is where my sister lives and farms with her husband and three sons. They have a huge grain farm - mainly wheat and canola - and until recently sheep.
Bruce Rock’s temperate climate and year round sunshine make it an ideal base from which to explore the region. Originally named Nunagin, the town was renamed Bruce Rock after sandalwood cutter John Rufus Bruce who set up camp in the mid 1800’s near a soak at Bruce’s Rock two kilometres from town. Here you can see a stone well built in the early 1900’s.
The area was first used for sheep in 1863, but wasn’t settled till after 1900. Multiple winner of the Tidy Towns competition, Bruce Rock’s wide veranda-lined main street retains impressions of the past, whilst displaying an innovative spirit that is bringing new growth to the town.
Here are some photos of the farm taken in April this year - this is the front stubble paddock and the view from the house with the late afternoon light.
It is lovely to go for a walk in the late afternoons
A similar view when the wheat field is green during the growing season. The yellow in the background is a canola paddock in flower.
I hope you have enjoyed these few views of the farm - here are another couple of pics for you
This is my favourite of the salmon gum in the front paddock
Main street of Bruce Rock -
Old wagon wheels -
Eucalypt flower -
well as you have probably realised pp is not something I delve into much - probably because I don't know what I am doing - but however - here is something a little different to what I normally post. Thanks Venura for getting me to look outside the usual.
This one I have just bumped up the saturation.......
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