Issue 5 April 2018
Brodie’s next 15,000 klm
On th e road again
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Caiguna Blowh
This is the entrance to one of the ma Nullarbor limestone plateau. It is know because depending on atmospheric either expelled or sucked to the hole. Th breathes.
While we were there you could hear air b the hole, other people report a cooling felt it all depends on the conditions.
In an area where there was much t probably give this one a miss, but as it w of any interest over many klms most p and leave quickly.
hole
any caves on the wn as a blowhole pressures air is This is how a cave
being sucked into g breeze could be
to do you could was the only thing ple stop, look and
Jilah Rockhole We wanted to be close to Eucla in the morning and as it was getting late this was our camp for the night. There were no other vehicles when we arrived and after checking out the provided toilet we thought how lucky we were to have one on board .. it was disgusting!! Within 30 minutes of pulling in there were another 7 vans setting up, some of them had driven 1050ks .. all the way from Pt Augusta, that is
e Wayside Stop one long day. Despite a bit of highway noise we slept well and awoke about 7am .. everyone had already left, I know they were there at 9pm because I was chatting to them ..Wow! and we thought we were early risers Not having much to do except shower and breky we on the road before 8
Telegraph St
tation at Eucla When technology made the telegraph station redundant the building was eventually abandoned with time, nature and vandals eventually reducing it to the state it is in. The sand blow is slowly gobbling it up with the inside already full of sand, Even beings miles from any where mindless grubs still have to bring out there spray cans and deface it. GRUBS!!
The Ayr Highway disappear
Looking from Eucla (on the South Aust b
ng into Western Australia
der) towards Perth ..... along way away
Colona rest stop, like a lot of similar sites dotted along the Eyre Highway, has no facilities just a lot of tracks around the trees to give privacy from the road. There were about 7 vehicles sharing scattered around when we went to bed and I noticed a few more in the morning.
Colona Re
est stop
The Eyre Highway was surprisingly busy, I had been led to believe that we would be inundated by road trains, but these were few and far between and mostly B doubles with the occasional triple, the caravans and motorhomes were proliďŹ c, rarely would 5 mins pass without seeing a couple of them.
Thevenatd near Ce The jetty and white building are used to ship salt and gypsum off for export. The faint shadow on the horizon is one of the Nuyts group of islands, When it was named by the Dutchman Nuyts, he suggested it was inhabited by giants although no evidence has been found, It has been suggested that the islands and there story could have been the inspiration for Jonathan Swift’s book “Gullivers Travels” as in the book Gulliver is washed a shore on an island north west of Van Diemans land (Tasmania). Some of the locals still hope to catch a giant or a little person ...maybe Lilliput exists off Ceduna.
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Strea Friends from Albany were staying at the Little Island Caravan Park so we joined them, what a beautiful park, once the greenery gets established it will be amazing. Streaky Bay is a popular holiday spot especially for ďŹ shing and seafood. There were some very pretty beaches near Streaky Bay but the rough gravel and Sandy tracks deterred us from visiting them.
Moon ris A very new caravan park with amazing facilities
aky Bay
ise over the park
Murphy’s H These beautiful shaped rocks just sit in the middle of a paddock. The name came from the farmer and that from a distance and with the right viewing angle look like haystacks. The farmer has built a picnic/camping area for visitors to the area. We thought about staying there but being only 30 odd k from Streaky Bay and we were there at 10am and Jan wanted some oysters from CoďŹƒn Bay we moved on.
Haystacks
Coffin Bay We drove into Coffin Bay to sample the oysters, it appeared to us to be just a small fishing village so after seeing emu’s wandering the main street and Jan getting her oyster fix we headed for Port Lincoln.
Port Li After all the little towns we had spent the last few weeks in Port Lincoln felt like a big city ... but it did have a Maccas’s. The local council had utilised under used jetty car parks as RV stays ... $10 a night gave you a legal “safe” place to stay overnight close to the city and with toilets and water. We had a pleasant night and headed north to Iron Knob, a camp we had used on the way to Perth.
Sunset
Sunrise
incoln The journey up the Lincoln highway was the worst we had experienced, the winds were gusting upto 50 knots blowing the motorhome al over the road. There were some pretty little coastal villages that we called into but the wind spoiled the experience and we spent very little time outside the vehicle.
Port Lincoln is almost at the bottom of the Ayre Peninsula, with the Whalers Way advertised as a drive around the very bottom. We decided to have a look but after 35ks we came across a locked gate (usually there is someone there to unlock it), it didn’t really matter as you could see some of the track, it was sandy, narrow and very undulating ...... no place for a 25ft motorhome! Fishermans Bay, where the whaling station had been was still pretty spectacular but with a gusty gale force wind the drone stayed in its case. Time to head north and we were continually bueted by the wind, the least pleasant of all our driving. There are some pretty little ports right along the Ayr Peninsula but with the wind and occasional rainstorm we didn’t stop long enough to appreciate them.
Fishery Bay SA
Iron Knob was our free camp for the night, we had stayed there on the way ov to the 20 or so before. Heavy winds and rain made us realise some of the be
Heading east Jan needed some extra wool so we were detouring through little stone buildings and wide streets .... housing in the area started at $79,000 W
Passing through Gladstone we had a look at the old gaol, it was decommissio toilets rather than buckets and it was too expensive to upgrade.
over and was surprised to see only 4 or 5 vans used it that night compared eneďŹ ts of a motorhome ... we didn’t have to venture out into the weather.
le towns hoping to get some, probably the prettiest was Jamestown, with its WOW! but along way from anywhere.
ioned in 1975 as the do gooders though the prisoners should have ushing
Cell Bloc
Entrance to Cell Block D
ck D
Dierent viewing angles of a photo in the birthing suite
Just outside Jamestown (probably
This is one of three blades that are ďŹ tted
y the center hub of SA’s wind farms)
d to a wind turbine, the motorhome is 7.5 metres
Greenoc
The Greenock showground caters for sel night, they provide toilets and fresh water
We stayed there 3 nights, the park is so p afternoons we had to ďŹ nd a dierent posi setup for a week while they toured the ar
Although toilets were provided Jan decid stuck with emptying the toilet cassette.
We toured around the Barossa and Adela had enjoyed before so the photos are in a
ck SA
lf contained vehicles and only charges $5 a er ..what a bargain!
popular that each time we returned in the ition .... some of the caravans remained rea.
ded they were too far to walk so I still got
aide Hills area but just covering things we an earlier blog.
Burr
The ďŹ rst company buil
ra SA
The dissused copper mine
lt miners buildings
Peterbo This huge paddock is a free camp provided by Peterborough, it is only for self contained vehicles and has no onsite facilities but there are toilets about 150 metres away .. still too far for Jan so the one in the motorhome gets a work out. Peterborough is an old railway town that history has left behind. There is a lot of railway tourist attractions (at one time 200 steam trains passed through in a 24 hour period,) and some beautiful stone buildings. We spent a couple of hours riding around this quaint town.
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