Mines Mines everywhere (3/5)

What holiday would not include a self-portrait image with me squinting!?! Cam & my trip centered on mining communities or former mines in SA that we haven't seen. We headed to an area know as The Iron Triangle that included Iron Knob. Here's a view of me squinting & an iron hillside in the far background.



The piles of waste excavated to get out the iron ore are very red because of the high iron content. Picture rusting rocks that leech into the surrounding soil. This was what is left of the once large iron knob, now just a red/black pile of dirt.



The town was right next door, and this house was not occupied, but reminded me of so many company built houses. Two rooms, one door, facing away from the mine but never escaping it.


We stayed in Port Augusta, which is at the tip of a waterway. The shipping in this town was really important & Cam and I went on a walk around the area that was a wharf. The old timbers and rail lines still run parallel to the shoreline.


We came across a sunken barge, that helped to reduce erosion to the shoreline. Finding it in the moonlight was very mysterious! Dad & all the other fishermen out there reading this, a family was fishing for something right next to this, but as far as I could tell, they didn't catch a thing.



Thee will be 2 more posts about this trip. I'll try to get to them soon, but off to read a paper before meeting up with friends this evening. LATERS YO!