Mt Magnet day 2

As we took a lay day here, we could spend time driving around the tourist trail and having a good walk, after a leisurely start to the day.

Mt Magnet is the oldest continuously operating gold mine in Australia, and the extent of mining in the area is astounding.

 

The trucks look enormous but are only 1/3 the size of those used in the Super Pit at Kalgoorlie!

It has literally changed the landscape - massive waste heaps look like small mountian ranges.

For a change, we saw some good birds - White-winged Wren, Black Honeyeater, and a Mulga Parrot. We also had good views of a Wedge-tailed Eagle that flew directly overhead

and some Little Woodswallows.

The walks were beautiful around the Amphitheatre.

Grave of a mother and child who died of typhoid in1908.

 

 

 

 and The Granites .

"Look, there have been tree martins nesting in here"

 

 

 

These flowers looked like hairy caterpillars!

 

Tall Eremophila shrubs

And the first carpet of Everlastings