Saturday 3rd March 2012

Up bright and early... John went for a stroll and took some photos of the amazing landscape around us...

We arrived in Norseman early..

Tree lined streets...

We had to wait for the Information Centre to open to get directions for the next 2 tee offs... plus get John's card stamped...


Norseman is at the crossroads to everywhere. The discovery of a rich gold reef by Laurie Sinclair in 1894 as a result of his horse 'Norseman' uncovering a piece of gold bearing quartz, caused a town to be established and named in honour of the horse. Although the main industry is goldmining there are also vast sheep properties East of Norseman.

 First tee off

This site was dedicated to the Ngadju people....It is a very significant place for the Ngadju people. In the earlier days Aboriginal people were not allowed to live in town. They could go to town on paydays and do their shopping, but before it became dark they had to go back to the Reserve. This continued until Aboriginal people started to apply for Citizenship. Initially, only two Aboriginal families were allowed to live in town. Their fathers had to work and live like non-Aboriginal people and their children were allowed to attend the state school.

Doing the traditional dance on the green

The tee also was to commemorates one of Norseman's true pioneers, Mort Harslett, who lived his whole life here.

Mort worked on the mines, provided services to the State School as caretaker/cleaner and was a founding member of the Historical Museum, but is mostly remembered for the many years of operating a mail delivery in the early days to properties out on the Nullarbor in his trusty old truck.

He told fascinating yarns of the early years and had a wealth of knowledge relating to the history of the Dundas Shire.

The lake you see in the foreground is called Warrarnbunna meaning "the place of the long ground". It's a salt lake.. very dry at the moment..

This area is also known as the Great Western Woodlands.The forest area is the largest woodland forest on earth.

The forever changing colour, diversity and beauty of this amazing landscape is truly captivate, we have noticed this thoughtout our journey across this wonderful land of ours... People that say the Nullarbor is boring .. is because they have not researched all the history of it...and explored it.

The tree's are beautiful... and the trunk's are a lovely bronze colour