The early morning is greeted by many birds, a few we identified, the Crested Bellbird, Yellow-plumed honeyeaters, Brown-headed honeyeaters but there were many more.

We visited many of the bomb sites today and again learnt a great deal about what and how nuclear bomb testing was undertaken, not sure why Australian schools didn’t and still don’t educate Australians about Maralinga, it’s quite disturbing.

Not much vegetation survived within the immediate blast area as it sterilised the soil and what grows today is short and dies off quickly. When bombs were exploded from a tower they turned the surface sand into a molten glass material known as Trinitite, sometimes green in colour and others black depending on soil mineral composition.

We visited one site where a visiting indigenous family camped in a crater caused by a ground explosion at the Marcoo test site. Terrible results and the family were treated poorly by the military.

The tour has been fantastic, it’s well worth the money and time spent to get here. Despite the awful events the country is in most parts recovering and we had time to enjoy the wildlife and flora.

Taken from on top of the swimming pool, now filled in, looking south from the hills to the plains in the distance.