Travelling Australia: Exploring an Abandoned Station! Dalgaranga Homestead and 100 year old Dam!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Join me on the final part to this little mini series exploring the abandoned homestead of Dalgaranga! A relatively intact station situated in the Yalgoo region, I take a look around and see some the interesting bits left behind and take a look at a 100 year old Dam overlooking the homestead!
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I lived here as a child - my parents sold the station to our neighbours and DEPAW purchased it from them and since then has let it become run down. I have photos of the dam when it was full - it burst in 1962 around July (I'm sure it was 62). The water made it down to the corner of fence around the house. I'm putting the history together as I want to try and get the dam heritage listed. There was a large shed where the sheep tags were - DEPAW removed it and it is now at Thundelarra Station. The mine was a tantalite mine to start with but I think they mined other things in the later years.
It is such a shame that they just leave it and let it become run down! You and many others would of had so many great memories within this station, and the knowledge that you have about this station should be on show around the buildings to help preserve and show off WA’s history! It really would be great to have a couple of information boards around the buildings and dam wall as not a lot of people know about this hidden gem and hard work that would of been done to complete it in that era!
@@JS_Adventure I have often thought about putting up some info signs. I have all the information for the heritage listing just go to get around to it! Tried to see if I could upload the photo of dam full onto here but can't seem to get it to work!
Thank You Jack for going there and Sue Heath for a great insight into the life of this wonderful outback property. That dam would have been amazing at capacity. ❤️🇦🇺🦘
Thanks for that bit of history very interesting, you must have mixed feelings to see it like that. I wonder what the Parks people will eventually do with it. Be good to see it restored.
Many many memories of this beautiful place. CALM should be ashamed.
Love watching videos about these old homesteads lovely house pity no one lives there
yes i traveled through here a long time ago on a 4WD trip with a club, the family gave us a warm welcome and some afternoon tea, went and looked at the old dam, good memories i hope someone takes up the property and makes a go of it. chris c
Your video brings back a lot of good memories mate. I worked out of dozens of shearer’s huts like that for 30yrs. The stations were like little villages , weekly mail drops , sometimes fortnightly during the wet times. All a part of opening up the best county on earth. Good luck on your future travels .cheers.
Cheers! 🍻🍻
Wow must’ve been impressive in its heyday, shame it was let go.
LOL @ "This property is under camera surveillance" - sure it is :D
The "no shooting" strikes me as strange. I would have thought rabbits and foxes were open season anywhere and everywhere, all the time.
JS Adventure: Loved the videos. I love history and am enjoying the videos. Thanks to your partners patience, allowing you to share with us viewers.
Thanks for the memories, makes me feel old and l hate it.
I wish l could start all over again but time and health have taken too greater toll.
there is a lot of old mines out the one you are at was used to mine tantalite that was used for the heat shields on the space shuttle their is also meteorite crate out there
WOW beautiful
Fantatsic thanks as i was just reading Track Care WA minutes and googled you and Dalagaranga ..Much appreciated.
Thanks Jack, if the walls could talk, The dam was a masterpiece, Thanks again for the journey, Cheers Bevan 🤠❤️🇦🇺,
Cheers mate! At that day and age it’s incredible! They would’ve been some tough times!
Also Dalgaranga meteorite crater is amazing. Went there 2019.
Some stations were taken back by the government or their leases were not renewed. I believe it's all part of the Rangelands project which means it will cost you to visit or camp.
Great viewing for those of us who can't get out there just now .
Loving this series, can't get enough of it. Nice work.
Cheers mate! 🍻 That’s great to hear!
Jack the last managers of the station live across the road from me in Geraldton.And good to see Sue is trying to get the dam heritage listed.Hope you are feeling ok now after your virus hit
Cheers mate!
Sorry Sue they are still leaving the bloody gate open. One of the saddest parts of the DPAW Stations is not what you can see (or not see.. they completely bulldozed Lakeside) is the abandonment of the bush. Station owners lived on and worked the land AND managed vermin, maintained internal infrastructure, monitored the land for Bush Fire hazards and fought any fires that happened and a dozen other things. NONE of this happens any more. Whilst our unsustainable cities are slowly decaying the bush, which has the ability to sustain us all, is being neglected. How many veggies can you grow in a 3rd floor flat? What does fresh air smell like? How dark does it get at night?. I was jealous of my Station friends during COVID lockdown when their back yard is 10s of thousands of acres. Sorry I better stop now!!
Dam is incredtable feat.
Looks like AR Richardson. It's amazing what's in the centre. Loved this, it's a shame it's all gone to waste. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers! Certainly is!
Discovered your channel quite recently and went back to the start to see them all... Huge effort you two, great content hope it all goes viral...
Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 Really means a lot hearing this! Thanks for the support!
Used to work at dalgaranga mine site and have spent time at the station awesome video cheers for sharing
Cheers mate! 🍻🍻
Most stations in the Murchison were on 99 year leases which have not been extended. DPAW has ended up "owning" many of them and done nothing to maintain them. It is sad and environmentally bad to see these places run down. I used to visit Dalgaranga, Lakeside, Culculli Milli Milli and many others which were vibrant 'mini' communities. I also had the pleasure of sometimes doing the Mail Run with my dear friend Bob Smiley who introduced me to these wonderful places. I bet you didn't find one of the gems of the Station, easy...just go through the gate with the sign "Shut the bloody gate" on the Yalgoo road
Yes is a bit of a shame that they’ve just been left behind as they would’ve held a lot of memories! No didn’t get to see it but will keep my eyes open when I’m out there next
My dad put the 'Shut the Bloody Gate' sign up as it was the boundary gate between us and Austin Downs Stn and they got sick of the tourists leaving it open! Many a photo taken at that gate!
Great country out there
They bought the stations back mate ..then bulldozed all watering points ..theirs heaps through the Murchison
Awesome video mate. Keep up the excellent work. 👍🐕🤠
Cheers mate! 🍻🍻
Such a cool trip.
Cheers mate! 🍻
Beautiful old homesteads, such a shame. The last building,
Probably the shearer’s quarters.
Hi Jack hope you are feeling better.wondering where Sophie is haven't seen her for a while safe travels enjoy you show
Cheers! She’s doing great and will be back early September
We visited there too and found it a interesting place, thanks good video.
Cheers!
Lovely big old country house
If those walls could talk
Great vid mate,well preserved buildings compaired to some abandoned stations around.Very interesting vid
Thanks.👴🏾👍🏾
Cheers mate!! 🍻🍻
Great episode Jack, hope your feeling better buddy.
Cheers mate! 🍻
amazing what's out there still! 🏜️🛻📹😎🤙
A lot of little hidden gems out here!
You can turn the seat belt chime off. The light on the dash will still flash.
Check google but hold the trip reset down and turn on the ignition with out starting. Put on seat belt and hold reset until it displays on the odometer and turn off.
Cheers mate will look into it, I remember the old hilux way but it just didn’t work in this thing
@@JS_Adventure mmm, may not work on your car then. 👍
Everyone knows me in Cue, happy to help, advise or confuse!!! any time.
Great tour Jack, shame the place has been neglected, but thats what
governments do best.
Was amazed that they had taken the time back in the day to tuckpoint
the stonework on the homestead. The blue paint must have been on
special by one of Bunnings predecessors long ago!
Hope you are feeling better and back on deck soon.
Cheers mate! 🍻
The last outbuilding would of been the Shearers Quarters.
Love the old homesteads and the history . Roo jerky ?? 😂😂
😂😂 Wasn’t too keen to give it a try!
@@JS_Adventure 😂😂
Good to see your fighting through your illness mate, appreciate the effort you put in. That station was eerie to see it like that.
Jack, what sort of exterior mirrors do you use on your prado. We are getting our caravan in a couple of months and starting to investigate towing mirrors.
Cheers mate! 🍻🍻 It’s a really weird feeling walking through these places that were once bustling and hold so many memories! They are “San Hima towing mirrors” I think they were around $300-$400 a lot cheaper than the big brands and a direct fit to prados. We had to cut and join some wires as the Kakadu/Vx has a different plug to other prados but it was easy enough and they have been great for towing! One of the best things we did was get whole replacement mirrors
@@JS_Adventure thanks for that Jack, l was looking at clearview mirrors and to get a pair of them l would have needed to take out a loan.🤣
😂😂 I thought the same thing!
Dalgaranga Tantalum mine started in 2000 they had jigs on that frame
The original mine started around 1960 - my parents bought Dalgaranga in 1961 and the mine was going then. It did stop operation around mid 1980s and then restarted late onl.
enjoyed that.
Cheers mate!
Great video Thankyou 👍
Cheers!
Hope you're feeling better Jack. Would love to read viewers stories from their time living in some of these areas. Dalgaranga station would have been beautiful in its heyday. I wonder why they left??? Besides the obvious (no water) etc.
Cheers! Sue Heath in the pinned comment has said that DPAW purchased the property some time ago. What there doing with it is anyones guess!
Check out Karalee Rock & Dam free camp site not far from Yellowdine,W.A.great spot! [if you want to] btw nice footage.....👍😊
Cheers! 🍻🍻 Will see what I can do! Looks like a bit of a drive, but I’ll try and plan something out as I was wanting to get out towards Wubin!
Karaoke Rock and dam unusual catchment system still holds water 🇦🇺
@@JS_Adventure have a look at Varley and pingaring water catchment and storage while your out that way mate🇦🇺
Stupid phone karalee not karaoke
Have been passing through and using it for shelter when needed for many years...lots of drilling being undertaken in the NE bit of the Stn...during Covid Yr 1 there were people living in the main house and left all their sh.t behind...not too flash...great station to explore and nice hills to climb...when the wildflowers are out there are some very pretty parts of the stn to look at if you're into pretties...it's just a pity that DPAW has allowed it to slide into the current state of disrepair...
Yep! Really is a shame as there seems to be a lot of history that is just going to waste out there! The wildflowers we’re just starting to colour on the way out and really lit up the side of the road!
Power , water at some point in time. Old sheep operation. Sleeping quartes
Thanks to Carbon Farming this pastoral farm would today be worth several million dollars. Check recent property price records if you don't believe me. If only the owners had soldiered on a few more years. Very sad, the plight of pastoralists deserves more attention
Did you drive your caravan in with you? If not where did you park it while you visited the station?
Nope I didn’t have the caravan at that point just the roof top tent, I don’t see why you can’t get a caravan in there, there pretty good roads just the drive on is a slow drive in
That dam was a great engineering feet
Pity no one ever repaired it
From reading around sometime during the 60’s it fell but it’s certainly a huge feet in those times to build something like this in the middle of nowhere!🍻🍻
Apparently the dam was constructed by the local indigenous people in the late 1890s , for a semi permanent water source and to farm native fish and crustaceans.I found this information from a book called Dark Emu written and researched by Professor Bruce Pasco.BSA ,DSC..
Are you sure about the information out of dark emu and this dam - that looks like concrete with steel - it’s not a typical indigenous construction - you may be getting your wires crossed.
The information in Dark Emu is not entirely correct, that is putting it politely.
@@rowdy5697 Well I was trying to not burst her bubble with it’s a total fiction - surely he’s not claiming a steel reinforced angular concrete wall from the 1920s as an aboriginal atifact is he..?
@@rupert5390 Aussi bull dust is so good. Thanks for putting me straight mate,LOL.Of course Pasco is a fraud however the ABC and NSW education board got sucked in by the Dark Emu saga . It’s hilarious but frightening at the same time. Cheers mate .
@@chloeew4627 pleasure just didn’t want to be rude you seemed a genuine person.
What did the sign say at 6.12? [Answered later - camera surveillance].
"Who Are Ya"...remember that...
Anyway...u popped up...let's c wat happens
Criminal to let the farm and dam get wrecked. The dam could have been great for wildlife.
The name looks like A R Richardson
Is it a railway station? I am Sout African and like your videos!!
Cheers for the support, it was a working sheep station (or farm)
Did u go there alone?
Yep!
Me thinketh amazing to see our brave yet feeble attempts at building especially when we compare to the immense infrastructure which have withstood the tests of time such as the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian pyramids and the incredible Cathedrals of...... Europe!@!?😝🤪😜😉
You didn’t check out the crater
Checked it out on the video before this one mate!
Good old DPAW. I wish they insisted on preserving our Aussie outback history upon purchasing it. Such a shame.
Would some kind person mind explaining to an ignorant American what the purpose of these stations are? Are they or were they for public use or was it more of a park ranger residence? Or something else altogether? 🙂
All good mate! Easiest way to describe a station is just a huge livestock farm (or ranch maybe) covering a large amount of land. The homestead being the main home/homes and then having smaller houses (outcamps) throughout the station property
Why is there a dead kangaroo in the shed very strage
They usually go into places and die during droughts. Seen it a lot.
Y is that strange
It needed somewhere to die
Back in the day when people would move to and live in these areas , now the most working out here are FIFO for mines on huge money and days off 7-14 straight.
Wool was worth a fortune in the 50’s,
“a £ pound a pound for wool” and sheep could run here, now it’s so many wild dogs even the population of Roos are in danger.
I have to laugh when I see the Teal city types up in arms “they’re Dingos, Dingos, , , well if they could only come and see 300 sheep smothered and mauled in one night, most of them still alive but with their faces ripped open , then they might realise it’s a problem, it’s costly, and it’s part of why these properties no longer work financially. I hear you say “then just turn to cattle”, problem there is the dynamics of size, land out there will only support one beast to maybe 80 hectares, so yr need a massive property in $$$ to support a big profitable herd.
Thanks for the clip , I enjoyed seeing that land and area where I lived and worked shearing, horse breaking, mustering many decades ago.
A lot of heritage buildings have been unmaintained by national parks and wildlife DISCUSTING BEHAVIOUR
Not getting the jab.
Full of asbestos I'm guessing.