Wednesday, November 3, 2021

THE VISION SPLENDID

On the  morning  that  welcome news came through that  the abducted  four year old girl Cleo Smith had been  found  alive and  well  in  Western Australia , illustrated  emails  from wandering  Darwin  agronomist Robert  Wesley-Smith  hit the  inbox , one  with  an  apt  painting of  a  young  girl  on a silo in a  field  of  grain .

It seems Wesley-Smith zoomed across the  Nullarbor Plain  faster than  the Batmobile in his  Honda Jazz , pausing now and  again to take  photographs revealing   aspects  of  this  wide brown  land .Tree planting  was  all  the go in one  small   town .  


In South Australia he saw hundreds  of  wind turbines  in  the  Port Augusta  region, some photographed  through the  windscreen.

Iron Knob , the  first commercial iron  ore  deposit  in Australia,  which led to  the development of  the nation's steel  industry, was  mentioned in connection with  the  following  view  of  the site, near Whyalla