Western Australia: Southern Central

"The Heart of the West Australian Wheat Belt"

Pink Lakes, Rock Formations and Coloured Crops!

The wheat belt of Australia was once just that, with some barley and oats thrown in for something different. Now Sorgum and other grains and crops dot the landscape and the everchanging seasons bring everchanging landscape colour.

Wave Rock Hyden

Grain Crop Arthur River

Beverley Railway Station

Ballooning over Northam

Pink Lake Dumbleyung

Then there are the unique pink lakes, formed from special salt mixtures and at the right time are so exuberant in colour and with the contrasting red rock and white salt lakes it is a photographers paradise.

Wagin Woolorama

Wagin, meaning the 'Emu's Watering Place', is located 228 kms south east of Perth in the heartland of Western Australia's Southern Central Wheat Belt.

It is home of the Woolorama Ag Show, the largest agricultural show in Western Australia and 'Bart' the Ram; a 9 metre high sculpture standing firmly in the central Wetlands Park since 1985.

Sculptured by Andrew Hickson it is 13 metres long and weighs 4 tonnes.

Major Towns

• Narrogin:- VISIT SHIRE OF NARROGIN

• Northam:- VISIT SHIRE OF NORTHAM

• Wagin:- VISIT SHIRE OF WAGIN

• Williams:- VISIT SHIRE OF WILLIAMS

• Brookton:- VISIT SHIRE OF BROOKTON

• Merredin:- VISIT SHIRE OF MERREDIN

Peel and Southern Central Regions Road Map

Photos: Wave Rock Hyden, Grain Crop at sunrise Arthur River: Lyle Stacpoole; Beverley Railway Station: Frank Pittorino; Ballooning over Northam: Scott Phillipe; Pink Lake Dumbleyung: James Palmer Focus Oz;