​Lar-ne-Jeering: home of the Black Cockatoo

This reservoir was built in 1880 from local hewn granite blocks. Not a lot of water in it.

Built from the local granite in the 1800s. Pretty impressive construction

Great place to visit! Yesterday we explored Mt Langi Ghiran State Park 30 odd Km north of Beaufort. The silence was revitalising! We wandered through dry woodlands surrounded by wattle, eremophila and a variety of eucalypts including Messmate and Red Stringy bark. And heard lots of, albeit didn’t many, birds- evidently there are over 100 different species in the area.

Love this gnarled old tree.

Mountains always fascinate me - I want to know how they got to be there (note to self - go back and do Mountains 101 with Coursera). Having read the signage, I can tell you Mt Langi Ghiran, 950m, consists of Devonian granite that intruded into overlying sedimentary rock about 350 million years ago. Erosion removed the softer rock and weathered the granite and voila! the mountains. Incidentally I wrote about discovering rock and fossil reefs of the Devonian period when we were in the Kimberley region. Seems that Australia is all connected - that’s a relief!

There was no interpretation about the images. 

A special find for me was the La-ne-jeering aboriginal rock art site. Not a long walk up a fairly gentle slope (had me panting but ....) to massive granite bolders where the Ngutuwal Balug clan once camped, made stone tools and told Dreamtime stories in the shelter of the rocks.  Although there was no interpretation of the images of the rock painting, they are evidently quite different to the art style in caves in the Grampians. Ngutuwal Balug means people of the mountains and their totem is the red tail cockatoo.

The walk to the aboriginal rich art site. Only a couple of Km.