From the Desert to the Sea
April 2012
From Kalgoorlie to Perth, the Great Eastern Highway is a 600 kilometre flat track of pockmarked bitumen, littered either side with empty bottles and toilet paper.
The Goldfields Pipeline pipes water from Mundaring Weir on the edge of Perth, through the dusty wheatbelt, to Mt Charlotte in Kalgoorlie.
Grain cells and wheat bins populate the rail line that runs parallel to the highway. The grain is loaded on to trains bound for the grain receival point in Kwinana.
Grain cells and wheat bins populate the rail line that runs parallel to the highway. The grain is loaded on to trains bound for the grain receival point in Kwinana.
Passenger rail siding in the highway town of Kellerberrin.
Late afternoon travel west along the Great Eastern Highway is always a battle with the blinding sun in full view.
Grain cells and wheat bins populate the rail line that runs parallel to the highway. The grain is loaded on to trains bound for the grain receival point in Kwinana.
Grain cells and wheat bins populate the rail line that runs parallel to the highway. The grain is loaded on to trains bound for the grain receival point in Kwinana.
Tammin Hotel, which is no longer open.
Late-afternoon sun shines off the railway tracks that criss-cross the road.
Bob-tail, Stumpy-tail, Sleepy Lizard, Blue Tongue – it seems that every state of Australia has a different name for the Shingleback.
Tier 3 rail line in Quairading, used to transport grain to port before the Barnett Liberal Government shut it down, leading to an increase in trucks on the narrow country roads.
An empty butcher shop stands on the corner of Quairading’s main street. Quairading is a small wheatbelt town, about 160 kilometres east of Perth.
The first glimpse of Perth’s CBD as you come over Greenmount.
World War II hero and avid scuba diver Jack Sue’s dive shop in Midland.
Crossing the Swan River at Guildford.
The tree-lined streets of Guildford.
Red-tailed black cockatoos drift above, a common, and welcome, sight from Southern Cross to Perth.
The iconic Indiana Tea House at Cottesloe Beach, on the edge of the Indian Ocean.
An old sign below the Indiana Tea House.
A Belgian-owned Bocimar dry-bulk carrier heads out to sea.
Early April, and the sea off Perth is warm due to the Leeuwin Current that sweeps along the west coast, to the Great Australian Bight.
An open swimmer…
Early April, and the sea off Perth is warm due to the Leeuwin Current that sweeps along the west coast, to the Great Australian Bight.
Sunlight glistens off the waters of the Indian Ocean.
The Westpac chopper patrols the beaches of Perth looking for sharks. Cottesloe is now one of the beaches where drum lines have been placed – around one kilometre offshore – in the State Government’s absurd attempt to decrease shark attacks.
Stand-up paddle boarder
Swimmers contemplate a leap off the Cottesloe groyne.
Ice cream by the beach – a welcome reward after a long drive from the desert.
(Updated April 2014)
Love it! Beautiful to see life through your eyes Mel!
Thank you, Linda – appreciate the kind words xx
My goodness, they are amazing photos. Pretty please – do you sell prints on request??
PLEASE! 😀
Hello! Thank you so much for the kind words – I do sell prints. Were you interested in a particular photo?
I was interested in many, to be honest! I’ll sit down & work out what I had in mind then I’ll get back to you. But the seaside/seagull ones are really capturing me right now.
OK – no worries!