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A much wider 180˚ view of this crazy thing in the middle of Western Australian farmland

Scrambled

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I spotted this on Google Maps as we were driving towards our eventual destination for the day

Is that a huge fried egg in the middle of farmland – surely not… But once we’d stopped beside the road on the way past and I’d flown up… there it was, and indeed it did look like a fried egg amongst the paddocks

Free Range

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The Fried Egg

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Yolk

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Salt of the Earth

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Salinity refers to the concentrations of salt in water or soils

Soil salinity and dryland salinity are two problems degrading the environment of Australia

We were on our way inland to stay at my uncles place in a small farming town in the wheat belt of regional Western Australia

Tadpoles

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Western Australia is the state most affected by salinity with nearly 7,000 farms and almost 2 million hectares of agricultural land showing signs of salinity. Some so badly salinised land unable to be used for production

Salt

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From the air it is spectacularly pretty but down below it’s devastating for the land

P

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I could have flown for hours more but well you know… the day was moving along and we had places to go. Time to land and start our journey inland and south…

Worn

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The Bay

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