Huge square of green-ish land out the back of wheat-belt in WA.

Lake Magenta Nature Reserve ?? Never heard of it, but sticks out like a sore thumb on that picture taken from the ISS.

party_pants said:

Huge square of green-ish land out the back of wheat-belt in WA.

Lake Magenta Nature Reserve ?? Never heard of it, but sticks out like a sore thumb on that picture taken from the ISS.

Too orderly to be a nature reserve.

‘tis a great photo though. SHows how thin the coastal strip is -which contains about 80% of all of WA’s population.

party_pants said:

Lake Magenta Nature Reserve ??

Very well known as sizeable wheatbelt reserve providing some continuity or corridor between Fitzgerald region andthe Great Western Woodlands. Very nice mallee country, especially in spring. Also showing Dragon Rocks (names after the agamid lizards on granite outcrops there), Lake King NR, Dunn Rock. Further across in uncleared areas included Frank Hann and Cascades and Jinbadji .. Peak Charles.. etc..south is Ravy and Fitz.

neomyrtus_ said:

party_pants said:

Lake Magenta Nature Reserve ??

Very well known as sizeable wheatbelt reserve providing some continuity or corridor between Fitzgerald region andthe Great Western Woodlands. Very nice mallee country, especially in spring. Also showing Dragon Rocks (names after the agamid lizards on granite outcrops there), Lake King NR, Dunn Rock. Further across in uncleared areas included Frank Hann and Cascades and Jinbadji .. Peak Charles.. etc..south is Ravy and Fitz.

I just knew you’d know.

Thanks – I shall look up the other names on Google Earth.

That’s my learning for today.

party_pants said:

neomyrtus_ said:

party_pants said:

Lake Magenta Nature Reserve ??

Very well known as sizeable wheatbelt reserve providing some continuity or corridor between Fitzgerald region andthe Great Western Woodlands. Very nice mallee country, especially in spring. Also showing Dragon Rocks (names after the agamid lizards on granite outcrops there), Lake King NR, Dunn Rock. Further across in uncleared areas included Frank Hann and Cascades and Jinbadji .. Peak Charles.. etc..south is Ravy and Fitz.

I just knew you’d know.

Thanks – I shall look up the other names on Google Earth.

That’s my learning for today.

Perhaps orderly in shape due to surrounding farmland division into paddocks?

roughbarked said:

Perhaps orderly in shape due to surrounding farmland division into paddocks?

No doubt. But that’s kind of why it just stuck out so stark in that photo.

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

Perhaps orderly in shape due to surrounding farmland division into paddocks?

No doubt. But that’s kind of why it just stuck out so stark in that photo.

Yep.

By the way, chard can and will take over your yard if you throw the seed about and water it. It is a great green vegetable.

roughbarked said:

By the way, chard can and will take over your yard if you throw the seed about and water it. It is a great green vegetable.

Huh – what’s chard?

… my place is not a 30 km x 30 km nature reserve, so will it matter?

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

By the way, chard can and will take over your yard if you throw the seed about and water it. It is a great green vegetable.

Huh – what’s chard?

… my place is not a 30 km x 30 km nature reserve, so will it matter?

:)

everything matters and nothing does.

party_pants said:

Huge square of green-ish land out the back of wheat-belt in WA.

Lake Magenta Nature Reserve ?? Never heard of it, but sticks out like a sore thumb on that picture taken from the ISS.

Nice pic.

I grew up in almost the the exact centre of that pic, and now live in the bottom right. We also had a farm near LMNR but I never went there for a look. Not much to see out there anyway. Mostly scrub with some spindly looking gum trees, and quite a few salt lakes.

Kingy said:

We also had a farm near LMNR but I never went there for a look. Not much to see out there anyway. Mostly scrub with some spindly looking gum trees, and quite a few salt lakes.

The grey nomads and wildflower & and bird biddies like to bounce around out that way, zipping down from Wave Rock and other granite outcrops and the lake systems south to the Fitz, or across to Esperance via Lake King – Cascade track.

(both taken around Lake King)

lake king – cascade track on a grey day