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 .
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