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At the information office I was advised, and this is verbatim, to "drive down the main street until you see the road that crosses over the railway line, drive across the line and past the Police Station and Fire Station (or is it the SES), turn right at the next road, continue up past the sheds for a couple of hundred yards [metres haven't arrived here yet] and you'll see some beside the road". Absorbing the instructions I headed off and three minutes later, having noticed a sign reading "Wreath Flowers" on a fence, I found the plant. Morowa also publish a leaflet titled "Morowa Wildflower Drives" which, if you were thorough, could keep you in the area for a couple of days. At the next town, Mingenew (which, for lovers of Australian Big Things now boasts the Big Wheat Stalk – known locally as "Big Ears") the information centre provides both a map and a list of locations with details like "20 km on the Pingelly road on the left hand side there are some excellent wreath flowers". And at Watheroo there's a wonderful local mud map with wryly enthusiastic comments like "Heaps of banksia, grevillea, snake bush etc along the road" and, getting quite technical "Rare and Endangered.
* The local Agricultural Hall was opened in 1911. * By the 1920s there were 2, 000 people living in the town. * By 1932 the town had two grain elevators. * In 1948 the Tammin Road Board was established. * The first concrete wheat silos in Western Australia were built in the town in 1960. * In 1961 the Shire of Tammin came into existence. * In 1985 the Tammin Landcare Group was formed to reverse land degradation. * In 1987 the local community purchased the hotel and garage. ^ TOP Visitor Information There is no Visitor Information Centre in Tammin. There is an information bay in the main street. ^ TOP Useful Websites There is a useful local shire website. Check out. ^ TOP
Lost agricultural production due to dryland salinity costs over $344 million each year. Most salt has come from the ocean, transported into the Wheatbelt by wind and rain over thousands and thousands of years, then accumulating in the soil. Without a water table, most salt remains within the soil. Widespread clearing of original vegetation has reduced plant water use and caused water to build up in the ground, raising the water table. As the water table rises, it dissolves the soil salts bringing this stored salt to the surface. " Located at the excellent amphitheatre, through the park on Dannan Street and behind Tammin Hall, is Kadjininy Kep, or the Tammin Hydrology Model, a working model depicting a typical Wheatbelt landscape with farmland being lost to dryland salinity. ^ TOP Other Attractions in the Area Yorkrakine Rock Located 26 km north of Tammin, Yorkrakine Rock is a substantial granite outcrop rising 341 metres and covering 160 hectares. It is a popular place for picnics and bushwalking.
Description History Tall Tales and True Map Video Other Information Photos DESCRIPTION Yet another of the many wheat belt towns, Tammin is named after the tammar wallaby (once listed as extinct on the mainland but re-introduction has seen numbers increase in several areas) which was the first Australian marsupial sighted by European explorers. Another first are the large concrete wheat silos in the town, the first of their kind in Australia. The town is on the Great Eastern Highway between the larger centres of Cunderdin and Kellerberrin. HISTORY Exploration started with Charles Cooke Hunt in 1864. Hunt seems to have travelled far and wide for John Forrest is quoted to have said of him; "Will I ever find a place where this man has not been before me. " In 1864, as he passed through the area, Hunt had his men construct a well. His diary entry for 4 March records: 'During the early part of the day the working party engaged sinking well - having made a hole about 10' long by 7' broad and 6' deep - by noon we obtained a plentiful supply of water for travelling purposes. '