Red Gums of Baroota - BW
by Lexa Harpell
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Red Gums of Baroota - BW
Artist
Lexa Harpell
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Photograph - Photographs
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Red Gums of Baroota - BW by Lexa Harpell.
Majestic Red Gum Trees grow to great heights through droughts and floods on the old Baroota Homestead.
The Australian landscape is as brutal as it is beautiful.
Like two sides of a coin continuously turning from hope to despair.
Baroota Homestead in Mt Remarkable Ranges was built by early settlers with high hopes of making it a go in a new land.
Covering bt 17,000 hectares of rough pasture for sheep.
The original settlers found hope of that elusive new life, working hard in remote South Australia's Outback. Building a stone homestead in the 1850's and running sheep for several years, success was near. Within those twelve years, the coin flipped with a devastating drought killing much of their stock - only to find that coin quickly flip yet again with torrential floods drowning their remaining stock.
Other settlers came and went to this homestead only to find the coin flipping their own hopes and despair.
On my visit, it was lush with water in the nearby river flowing creating beautiful scenes at every turn. Yet Mother Nature is a hard woman in the Outback, constantly thwarting us mere mortals of finding a life on her land, throwing everything she has to make sure we know who is in charge of this land. When she takes a rest with her devistation, she allows us to witness her incredible raw beauty that only the Outback can present.
'Give it a go' is a well used term for Australians forming early in our western occupation of this land. Coming first is not our prize - taking a chance in life is our prize, even if against the odds - that's how we think, what we believe and that term came from the countless early Australians 'Giving it a Go' in the Australian Outback.
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November 18th, 2020
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