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South of Parachilna, South Australia, looking towards Lake Torrence.

The Great Depression and collapsing wool prices finished what drought had left, and many ghost towns dotted the Australia countryside of the 1970s.  We saw towns with roller rinks and playing fields, complete except for residents.  Others, like Blinman below, were boom-and-bust mining towns.  To avoid saying rural culture never recovered, we say instead that modern Australia is one of the world's must urbanized nations today.





       

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Abandoned houses in Blinman, South Australia, an old mining town.  The ore body discovered here
 in 1859 by Robert Blinman later yielded as much as 40 % copper.  




           
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(left) Abandoned home on the road to Hawker.  
(right) Abandoned homestead south of Parachilna, looking towards Lake Torrence.