Broad Arrow - Ghost town

After lunch today I headed out towards Menzies, but it was Broad Arrow that was my destination, only 38 kms from Kal.

Being the first time I had travelled that way I was interested in the landscape and was pleased to note a number of working gold mines just off the road. However soon after leaving town, I was stuck by an unusual phenomenon. My initial thought was that I must be passing the council tip and that the recent storms had blown litter all over the side of the road.

Unfortunately it became all too clear that many travellers along this stretch of tarmac think throwing their rubbish out of the window the thing to do. It was pretty disgusting, kilometres of litter strewn highway.

Obviously I'm not the only one who's noticed.



Broad Arrow itself is, as listed, a ghost town. There is still a tavern operating and it looked as though another house was occupied, other than that. Nothing. A far cry from days of old, when there were at least five pubs, a cordial factory and it had its own stock exchange.

I took a couple of shots of nature reclaiming its own and wonder how long the whole process takes.