Kalannie Wheatstock W A and Work

For the last few years, Kalannie has held a festival called Wheatstock, at the end of harvest. After having one of the best harvest seasons on record, everyone was ready to party at the 2019 festival. The town of 200 blew out to over 2,000, caravans and campers, came to enjoy the weekend of friendship, food and great live music. We all had a fun time singing and dancing the night away. Such community spirit. 

The firies put on a recovery breakfast on the sunday morning. By the time Chris and I walked over to the oval and joined the que, they were running out of bacon so it was an egg and sauce sandwich for us. Think they said they had gone through 25kgs of bacon !!                                                                                                   With the cropping finished , it’s time to fertilize the paddocks.  Now this could only be done in the West, crazy as it seems they use sand off the beaches . I went for a day with Chris in the truck, to see it for myself and get photos, of coarse.

It’s a 3 hr trip to Jurien Bay,  we left by 3am, and was just breaking daylight when we drove into the sandhills, and loaded sand by headlights. Once loaded it was back on the road again, and a we headed to a farm drop off way out East [I think ], these farms are just huge, not a house or person in site. The drivers get a pin drop on google for directions, and the farmer usually leaves a small bucket or stick where he wants them to unload. Bit like finding a needle in a haystack.

 Note the size and colour, of the drop off marker, took awhile to find it.

That done it was time to head back to the depot, and Chris can do it all again tomorrow.                                                                                                                             And to finish off, i’ve found another nice sunset photo. 

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