Into Adelaide
A wet start to the day quickly cleared to a partly sunny day by the time we got through the outskirts of Adelaide and heading north towards Port Augusta, via Port Wakefield and Port Pirie.
Port Wakefield to Port Pirie
The stretch of road between Port Wakefield and Port Pirie was amazing – along a valley between low, gentle, rolling green hills, lined on the left for kilometre upon kilometre by towering wind turbines. On our right, the floor of the valley was dotted with small salt pans, their waters turned pink due to the salinity in the water. And the road was top notch too – all in all one of the most relaxing and enjoyable drives I have ever done.
Wind turbines dotted the side of the valley for kilometres on the road between Port Wakefield and Port Pirie
Salt lakes dotted the floor of the valley.
Another of the small salt lakes along the road to Port Pirie
Port Augusta – It’s A Small World
Our stay at Port Augusta was highlighted by a few hours at Wadlata Outback Centre, learning about the aboriginal dreamtime stories and also the history of the explorers who discovered and opened up the interior of our great country – made all the more interesting by the fact that we were about to travel through the very countryside they discovered.
However, the most bizarre part of this leg of our journey is that we ran into a lady staying in the caravan park that works at our local Coles store in Endeavour Hills – talk about a small world!! She too is on holiday and it looks like we will be travelling as far as Alice Springs with them (we both have the same itinerary for the next 10 days or so).