Goongarrie Sheep station

90kms north of Kalgoorlie is Goongarrie sheep station. It was first known as "Roaring Gimlet" due to the sound of the cold south-westerly winds roaring thru the gimlet trees & also as "Ninety Mile" due to the distance from Coolgardie. The lease was taken up in 1924, 100,686 hectare station but was never fully developed due to lack of fresh water supplies. It was bought by DEC in 1995 & is now a camp spot or the homestead & other buildings available for groups to hire. Normally there is camp hosts looking after the place during the season, but luckily for us no one was there so we got a freebie!!!

Sunset at Goongarrie

Homestead outside BBQ area

Homestead


Bob checking out the water tank

Old wheel barrows

Old truck, seems like every station or farm has old trucks rusting away in a paddock!!


Shearers cottage

"Sandy" a mans best friend grave

Sandalwood camp. Sandalwood use to be cut at Goongarrie. It is all exported to Asia for making incense

Pink wildflowers at sheep yards


Old sheep trough

Bob & rusty old tractor


Comet vale is another abandoned gold mine

Bob looking down old mine shaft, looks like they may have had some gold on the property


2 houses are all that is left of the railway town of Goongarrie

1894 graves on roadside near the town