OUTBACK AUSTRALIA.... Back When....

....... this is a picture my Dad had taken years ago at a place called Farina in the centre part of South Australia, near Maree. The town is no longer inhabited, with the closest residents now living at Farina station, visible to the west of the town. The post office closed in the 1960s. In its heyday, the town had two hotels (the Transcontinental and the Exchange) and a bakery. Today nothing but stone ruins and the elevated railway water tank remain of the township. A bush camping area is maintained by the owners of the present-day Farina station.
Dad, was in the Royal Australian Air Force during the war, and his Dad was a water bore driller all parts outback Australia, mainly through South Australia and into west New South Wales. They had a lot to do with the Australian aboriginals mainly around areas like Wilcannia and Broken Hill.
To the point of todays blip.... had a flat out day sorting through old pics (amazing what one does when retired and it is a miserable day out side cold and wet), anyway, saw this and thought I would share with my Blip friends.
Obviously nothing on the back of pic to say why it was taken, other than where.
The goods train behind shows what would have been supplies heading North toward Alice Springs, and probably stopped to use that water tower in the back right of pic, maybe the bore to fill that tank drilled by my Grand dad?
Not a thing done to the pic as you can see the cracks in pic etc, just thought that added a bit of character along with these lovely two indigenous boys.

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Enjoy.