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Published: June 22nd 2009
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hay stacks
Me standing in front of the Haystacks, there were heaps of them in this paddock all in clusters. We have left Adelaide and traveled north through Port Augusta, then back down south onto the Eyre Peninsula. We stayed at a rest stop on the side of the road. The Camps Australia has more than made up for the cost of it with only having to have paid for a couple of nights camping since we left.
The next morning we drove through quite desolate, barren land through Whyalla which is a steel city, there is sheds, mines, factories etc all run by Onesteel (who my dad works for) everywhere. There is also alot of army barracks and army training areas around this area.
We continued on down the Peninsula finally arriving at Port Lincoln in the early afternoon. Port Lincoln was quite pretty and seemed very quiet. As it was still quite early we decided to travel on till closer till dark back up the other side of the peninsula.
We made it as far as Sharinga beach, and wow what a beautiful place to stop for the night. We paid permit fees at a little shop and then traveled 8k on a good dirt road towards the beach. There was no one else staying so
Sea Cave
Nathan standing in a cave along the cliffs. we had the place to ourselves, we placed the van right on the edge of the camp area, overlooking the beach/ocean. We ate tea sitting outside watching the huge SA waves crashing. I even saw a dolphin, or I think it was, I just saw a fin go up and down along the quite close to the beach, Nathan saw it right before it went down the last time, he thought it could be a shark, so not sure what it was really.
Most of the western side of the peninsula was beautiful and green and didn't look like it had changed much since the first white people arrived there to farm in the mid 1800's. There were rock walls around some of the paddocks (called dry wall as no mortar was used). There were the ruins of the little stone cottages where they would have lived, some of the stone buildings are still be used by the farmers of today. Yesterday morning as we traveled it got really misty and it looked like how i thought Scotland would look.
We continued traveling slowly towards Ceduna, stopping in at a few landmarks and bays along the way. Some
Dry wall
Dry wall made in the 1800's that still is used in some areas to sorround the paddocks and keep in sheep. It was very misty and looked alot like I thought Scotland would look like. landmarks that were really cool were The haystacks (Rounded rock structures that have bubbled up from the ground in a group in the middle of a paddock. This is something to do with the ocean pushing them up or something) and the Talia cave ( Acave made in the cliffs caused by the rough ocean wearing the rock away).
We have now arrived in Ceduna, where were staying 2 nights (last night and tonight) while we wait for friends Peter and Sonia to arrive and we will travel across to Perth with. They will arrive sometime tonight. At the moment I am baking a cake and will then go buy a few groceries before heading across the Nullabour. Nathan while doing a check on the car this morning has noticed our water pump is broken. He's hoping to find somewhere that has one, but he is not holding out much hope. I guess we will wait and see what happens.
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Danielle Ramage
Yay, Nathan found an Autopro and amazingly they had the water pump we needed! Nathan has been working on it all day so we will be ready to travel tomorrow :)