Day 113 Friday 5th August
It has been raining most of the night and the weather today is very windy, cold and rainy.
We had a drive around the town and went to the Winter Hill Lookout. From here you could see the town as well as Boston Island in the Bay and some of the tuna fishing nets.
Day 114 Saturday 6th August
We did some shopping today and that was about it. It is still raining but not all the time. It is cold too. We went for a walk in front of the park to see the jetty and Boston Island in the distance.
Day 115 Sunday 7th August
We left Port Lincoln this morning at 8.30 and set off along the coast to Port Augusta. We had morning tea in Cowell, a lovely seaside village. We passed through Whyalla which had a big steel works on the bay. Then we arrived in Port Augusta which is at the top of Spencer Gulf. There were a few copper mines along the way. We stayed in a semi-free camp. It was at the back of a football club house. They had water and a dump point but no electricity. We only paid $5 for the night so we couldn’t complain. There were at least a dozen other campers there for the night with us. Port Augusta gets their water from the Murray and it is sent in pipelines all the way down with huge holding tanks along the way.
Distance travelled today 342 kms
Total distance travelled 18397 kms.
Day 116 Monday 8th August.
We left our camp at 9.00 and went into Port Augusta to the Visitor’s Centre is and looked at their display there. It was called the Wadlata Outback Discovery Centre. It was an interactive display with lots of stories and video clips of the early days of the area. It showed a lot about the early explorers; Sturt, Stuart, Giles and Eyre and the hardships they endured to cross this land. It was well worth a visit.
Then we headed off to a town called Quorn. This town is at the beginning of the Flinders Ranges and has many old buildings from the early days of pastoralists who settled here in the 1850’s.
Then we went through the town of Hawker and on to Wilpena. Our first view of the mountains was spectacular, as we paid our National Park fees.
We arrived in Wilpena and decided to stay for 4 nights. The bush setting was beautiful with kangaroos and emus wandering around. We went up to Stokes Hill Lookout to watch the sunset. The view was absolutely amazing but it was freezing cold. The wind was blowing as we stood on top of the mountain, freezing. There were heaps of kangaroos or euros all over the countryside and we had to be careful driving back to camp.
Distance travelled today 200 kms
Total distance travelled 18608 kms.
