Photos

SIF3 Tour of South Coast Region, Western Australia, 31 July - 2 August 2006

The SIF3 project team members on the tour: David Pannell (Uni of WA/CRC Salinity), Anna Ridley (DPI Victoria/CRC Salinity), Roger Wilkinson (DPI Victoria/CRC Salinity), Sally Marsh (Uni of WA).

Day 1: Upper Hay Catchment

Meeting at the start: Louise Hillman (SCRIPT), Roger, Allan Carter (Greenskills/SCRIPT), Geraldine Pasqual, John Blake (DAFWA), Sally, Anna.

Ruhi Ferdowsian (DAFWA) gives a positive message

John Blake (DAFWA) explains.

Day 1: Woogenellup (south of the Stirling Range)

The Stirlings, behind revegetation on Adam's farm.

David Jann (SCRIPT), Anna, Deon Utber (DEC), Sally, Ron Master (DAFWA) near a plantation of Casuarina obesa on Adam's farm.

Day 2: Jerramungup/Bremer

Keith Devenish (DAFWA), Tom Bryan (farmer) looking at a successful recent planting of salt bush and tall wheat grass.

The Wellstead Estuary (and Roger)

Tim Overheu (DAFWA), Sally, Sam Rayner (FBG), Roger, Anna, David, Phil Hadley, Keith Devenish on the lookout at Bremer Bay. That wind was cold.

Day 2: Fitzgerald

Stuart Bee (farmer) and Trevor ? (farmer and chair of the Fitzgerald group). Very positive about prospects for lucerne.

Roger talks to SCRIPT management committee about social issues.

Day 3: Stokes Inlet/Young River

Stokes inlet

Michael Whiting (farmer, Young River)

Trees around a saline creek on Michael's place.

Day 3: Lake Warden

Sally, Frank D'Emden (DAFWA/SCRIPT), John Simons (DAFWA), Wes Graham (farmer), in the catchment for Lake Warden.

Lake Warden, a Ramsar-list wetland, with properties of small landholders in the foreground.

All photos by David Pannell

URL for sif3 project: www.sif3.org

Copyright © David J. Pannell, 2006
Last revised: October 24, 2008.