Saturday 8 July 2017

Day 2 -Wilmington here we come. (Bean)


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Left Coober Pedy after a very cold night. Ear plugs were needed for bloke in the next cage who snored like a trooper.

Waved good bye to one of the largest wind mills I've ever seen:

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Then we headed south through vast very very flat scenery. We saw an Emu. It didn't acknowledge us which was rather disappointing.

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Long straight roads with road trains hurtling by went on for hours...and hours...and hours.

We then found Lake Hart or it found us.

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We went through Port Augusta which was quite novel what with traffic lights, bendy roads and such-like. There were some ranges off to the side that I'm guessing could be The Adelaide Ranges.


It was a great surprise that the road took us through these ranges to get to Wilminton. I suppose not reading a map can lead to adventure (Not that that was really a great adventure). Our Sat Nav has a slight attitude problem which has unfortunately led to her nickname being 'Slapper'.

The ranges were fun and they seemed to grow their own cockatoos which I thought was very impressive.

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Finally we got to Wilmington which is a very pleasant area with a pretty nice camp area.

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We are about to light a fire and we can hear ghosts in the nearby wood. Al says they might be Kookaburras.

Oscar did throw an amber light on the dash today. It's gone after a restart. I'm googling it and I think it might have been an over ride of the cruise control because it thought it had been on too long without any change.

I could be totally wrong which tends to happen a bit.



Crap - just started to rain - Time to move!