Hello to my loyal, followers! Taken me a while to find some wi fi but here I am sitting in Port Lincoln library!! Well the first leg of the road trip started well, kind of, dropped 2 bottles of beer on the driveway before I set off getting half of it on my trousers. Spent the next 8 hours smelling like a dirty pub floor! But the adventure and the sights soon made up for it, supplies in the eski and I bit the road.
Didn't really stop till I got to Port Augusta for a quick coffee in the Golden Arches. Did pass through many familiar places, Redhill, Croydon and Willmington to name but a few, and my next stop was Whyela.
Why indeed, This is where the Outback meets the Sea, and the Mullet is alive and well! Its main attraction is a tour of the local steel works and after fighting the urge to go in for several seconds, I pushed on.
(pictures to follow on all theses highlights!)
The radio had decided to play nothing but white noise for the first part of the trip, and imagine my delight when I was hitting the buttons for the millionth time and pressed the CD button to find a CD in it!!!! Thank you Lord (well thank you Kevin, seeings as it's your car!!) The only downside to the fabulous Matchbox 20 CD was that it consisted of only 6 songs, all of which I now know by heart!
Then after over 600km (I'd love to know what that is in old money) several coffees and a very interssting stretch of road that ran alongside a wind farm (OMG I almost had kitten, I finally arrived in the very pretty Tumby Bay. The Motel was 'interesting', mainly inhabited by Logging workers and run by a very friendly, but itnteresting man. He may have had a coupla stubbies and was struggling to sign me in as he had sliced the top of his finger off peeling spuds, and had stuck it back on with sellotape (or Durex as my Aussie guide book tells me they call it here. I didn't fancy asking) So after being shown to my room, I checked out the town, the local pub, the sunset and retired to bed to listen to loggers coughing and belching!
And then the sun rose on another glorious day in the land Down Under!
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