Range Road West to Victor *Harbor… 1

Dear Reader:

There are Marbled Xenica, Common Brown and Painted Lady butterflies on the Egyptian Rose blossoms along the roadside. Superb Fairy wrens flit amongst the bracken and Grass Trees.

Marbled Xenica

Painted Lady

I am driving the length of Range Road West between the Cape Jervis turn off and the sealed road to Victor Harbor. This gravel and dirt road passes through dense bushland, lightly wooded farmland and commercial pine forest.

Scrub near the Range Road West and South Road junction

A weathered cattle and sheep corral catches my eye and I find a safe place to pull over and explore the classic old structure. As I approach, a Western Grey Kangaroo emerges from a nearby patch of scrub and bounds towards a group of sealed hay bales where it stops and looks back at me.

Stock pens and corral

Still watching you!

My next stop is a dried-out farm dam where a small group of sheep are sheltering. One has been shorn and the rest have full fleeces. I have to scramble through the scrub between the road and a property fence-line to photograph them.

Getting a bit of shade

Further along the road, A small herd of cattle are sharing the lush pasture with both Little Ravens and Maned Ducks.

Maned Ducks

At the junction of Range Road West and the paved Delamere to Victor Harbor Road, I make my final stop alongside a ramshackle storage area for fencing posts. Several cows are resting in the shade and a small flock of Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are foraging alongside them. As I approach, the birds fly into an ageing eucalypt while the cows ‘typically’ take little notice.   

A mixed bag of rural life

Sulphur-crested Cockatoos

……….to be continued

Cheers

Baz

Additional notes

*Correct spelling for town’s name

The camera used for this post is a Sony RX10 Mark 3

This is an easy drive which is quite suitable for families and seniors with

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