The Mythical Farm of Legend

posted on: Monday, 26 September 2011 @ 11:56pm in

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]

Since I first got together with JJ, I have heard stories of the farm which has been in his family for generations (or at least, his grandparents ran it, and it’s now owned and operated by his uncles and their family). It has a name but is just referred to “The Farm”.

For the last seven years, JJ has told me he will take me to “The Farm”. For various reasons, we never quite got there.

Recently, I found out that the place isn’t a collective hallucination.

Farm house roof, house hidden by trees — There is a house in those trees. It’s a bit of a dark splodge in the photo. On the other side of the tree to the right of the white thing.

The farm is a decent size, and got some pretty scenery. I couldn’t piece a decent writeup together (and the farm visit was a couple of weeks ago now), so have a bunch of photos.

Dog in a tree — Hondo the resident sheepdog of questionable sanity

Machine shed — Off to check out the farm equipment

Farm equipment is kinda big — The farm equipment is kind of big.

Alien farm equipment! — Some of it was possibly inspired by alien technology

Toddler with face pressed up against the rear glass window of a car — Going for a ride in the ute, toddler squishing face against window

Some running gunning shots from the back of the ute.

Big boy in the front seat — Big boy enjoying the novelty of riding shotgun

Dog doing the windblown thing in the back of the ute — My ute tray companion

Fields of daisies...er...canola — Fields of daisies…er…canola?

Windmill beside a salt lake — Would have liked the windmill to be higher, but when we got closer, the angle was wrong

Bizarro alien vegetation — I love my weird country and its weird vegetation

Brief stoppage to look at stuff.

Many colourful tiny flowers — Sometimes the red sands explode with colour.

Weird little red land anemone type plant — Weird little red land anemone. Should find out what it is. And should have cropped this.

The other ute and the other running gunner — JJ taking a photo of me taking a photo of him taking a photo of…

Old eagle's nest — Old abandoned eagle’s nest

Back on the road.

Bobtail lizard — Bobtail running away after challenging the ute

And another stop.

Purple star shaped flowers — Fringed lily twiner (*Thysanotus R.Br.*) - thanks for the common name Kimba :)

Orange water drop shaped flowers — They’re pretty. I’m not much of a plant person.

Scrubland — Random shot of the bush that didn’t turn out terrible

Quandong fruit — Quandongs are tasty like lemons

Yellow grevillea thing across the road from the quandong tree

And lastly some cool rocks we passed on the way to The Farm that we would have stopped to take photos of if we weren’t supposed to be meeting people at a certain place by a certain time. So we took some on the way back.

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