First post COVID trip (Aurora, Helena and surrounds weekender)

Yer not bad. Like the drone work.Marda dam was a stopping point for the stage coach era. Be interesting to view what else you come up with... there is just so much off the beaten tracks to see in that neck of the jungle.

Nice work.

Been to Helena and Aurora twice, including this time last year. Like most of that region it is no place to be after rain! As it was for us!

Otherwise fairly easily accessible.

Worth pointing out to eastern states viewers that this beautiful place was under serious threat from iron ore miners for many years.

But sanity prevailed and it will become a nature reserve.

Cheers

Nice video, great area around there.

2nd part of the trip out to the Yilgarn region. This part takes us from the Aurora range, the back way to the Mt Manning, finding a few points of interest along the way, then onto Mt Elvirie station where we camped at the break-aways. The next day we took a quick look at the Diemals station homestead, or whats left of it.

Its a great spot. We only scratched the surface in this series.

What a difference a drone does to viewing from on high... love it. I've recently brought one and in my infancy in using it.

What farm did you live on?

The depression (there is two of them in close proximity to each other) you came across on the east side of Mt Manning, I thought the same as you in being meteorite craters given that the Mt Manning on is a bit further north from these, I emailed photos of these depressions to Department of Mines for clarification to which several Geologists replied saying they ain't, can't remember what described them as.

There is no crater at the Mt Manning meteorite site only a cairn (I built it) to mark its impact proximity. There is however a small (very small) depression underneath a bush and when one studies the photo in the letter box in the cairn of the geologists who discovered it partly buried digging it out in 1979 it seem to fall into place.

When I first seen Diemals homestead I thought what a fabulous place to set up as a wilderness camp. And meeting old Tony the station owner, what a fabulous bloke he was... one could easily lose 3 hours having a cuppa and a chat with him and he was always abreast of world affairs. I was camped on top of Mt Geraldine when I heard he had passed away.

I have been exploring this area for the last 20 plus years, in your two videos whilst you've done a fair distance in the short time you have driven past some, I think, spectacular natural features.

Enjoyed your videos and makes me want to get out there again and again.