Sorry, we’re closed. The highest-altitude grocer in South Australia trades no longer, since the railway was re-routed in the 1970’s to avoid the “Belalie Bank”, where they had to use a second locomotive in the steam days, to climb the hill to Belalie North.

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This humble shelter for its collection of tractors and farm implements is at the base of a giant sand-hill, close to the edge of the River Murray.

The elderly woman owner was mystified, as she tended her vegetable garden, why anyone would want to paint her old shed.

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Australian farmers have long taken a pride in using whatever materials are at hand.

This farmer needed shelter for his small grain elevator which hides in the depths of this tiny shed, built entirely of second-hand materials; galvanised iron, only slightly rusty, and old railway sleepers.

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Wynarka’s a tiny settlement on the grain-railway between Tailem Bend and Loxton.

The nearer structure was a lime kiln, built to turn the local limestone into the quicklime that was then mixed with sand in the early days, to make mortar.

The kiln itself was built of the same materials, and among its first products would have been the quicklime for the dis-used shed beyond.

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The same shed as in Shed (1) from a slightly different angle.

The damage wrought by the wind and rain is pretty clear.

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It’s more a loose association of several sheds around an old stone core.

Its various bits were built mostly of second-hand materials as the farmer’s needs arose.

Some parts collapsed, as the winds became too strong for his style of construction.

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