Orroral today

Orroral today

Road and foundations are all that remains of the Orroral Valley Tracking Station today.

Interpretative signs guide visitors, but from a distance, the valley appears almost unchanged.

Élysée Lindsay took these photos of the valley from the site of the Honeysuckle Coll. Tower before the 2020 bushfires.

A rainbow adorns Orroral Valley, as seen from the site of the Honeysuckle Creek collimation tower, 2019.

Photo: Élysée Lindsay.

A rainbow adorns Orroral Valley, as seen from the site of the Honeysuckle Creek collimation tower, 2019.

Photo: Élysée Lindsay.

A rainbow adorns Orroral Valley, as seen from the site of the Honeysuckle Creek collimation tower, 2019.

Photo: Élysée Lindsay.

and for comparison

Élysée’s grandfather, Hamish Lindsay, took this photograph showing the then-operational Orroral Valley tracking Station in June 1972.

Transparency scan: Colin Mackellar.

The view in Orroral Valley, 2019.

Photo: Élysée Lindsay.