Lake Grace

After leaving Nyabing we headed NE to Lake Grace. Lake Grace was a nice surprise as it was a thriving town way out here in the harshness of WA outback. The area desperately needs rain & the paddocks are scorched brown, dams are dry & hand feeding the stock. These farmers & their families are really doing it tough & you have to admire their courage under these dire circumstances.

 

Road train carrying hay

 

Station masters house

 

Lake Grace station

 

Rosie's coffee shop

 

Flowering red gum tree in main street

 

Lake Grace hotel

 

Flowering gum & bee !!!

 

 

Lake Grace sign

 

Bob checking out the dry salt lake

 

Dust storm over Lake Grace

 

Lake Grace

 

Victory sign

 

Replica plane used by the Royal Flying doctors when the mission was in full swing from 1926 - 1952

 

Inland Mission hospital. The only one left in WA & was saved by the locals & restored to it former glory

 

Old building in Newdegate.

 

Newdegate is 50kms east of Lake Grace & not much left of the town, pub,PO & IGA store!!

 

Newdegate hotel

 

Another sad railway station, all these towns once had a thriving township due to the trains that ran along these tracks way out here in the outback towns. These days they are very sad reminders of the past!!!!

 

Road out here just goes on for ever, can see for miles

 

Lake King another very large salt lake out in the middle of nowhere!! 60kms east Newdegate