Twenty five minutes north west of Southern Cross on the appropriately named Bullfinch road is the tow of Bullfinch. Fairly certain its small enough to be a hamlet, but nobody here knows what a hamlet is.
According to the town sign it is the first major goldfield and started up in the early 20th Century, with mining in 1909, farming in the mid 1920s and more mining until the 1960s.
The tourist sign at the north end says “Bullfinch is currently slumbering, awaiting the next boom”. At the last census in 2016, the population of Bullfinch was at 34.
There’s a 4G Cell tower, an unmanned post office, an empty hotel, about 20 residential homes and a wheat bin. I took a bunch of photos with the new drone, which really helps to really add some scale to a 34 population town.
Beyond Bullfinch, heading west on Koorda-Bullfinch Road is the very impressive Baladjie Lake Nature Reserve, home of the appropriately named Baladjie Rock.
The Wheatbelt seem to have an abundance in the seemingly flat countryside of gigantic rocks poking out of the ground, also chocolate lakes.
I tried my hand at using the DJI Video app to ‘make’ the below short video clip.
