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Witura National Park
South Australia
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While there is nothing left standing of Federal, a lovely
homestead standing in a small pastoral lease used to be in this spot. The carefully tended gardens are in total ruin but the partially buried, upside down old beer bottles almost define the outline of what was once a lovely
homestead with extenstive garden beds.
R. B. Plowman, who wrote The Man from
Oodnadatta, described Federal as "...a small cottage
homestead literally embowered in creepers, trees and shrubs. A wealth of flowers, grape and cucumber vines, useful and ornamental creepers, extensive lawns, vegetables in profusion, and fruit- trees of many kinds, throve and made a wonderful scene."
The nearby
waterhole today attracts birdlife.