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Published: March 12th 2022
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We backtracked a bit today. First it was back to Moonta Mines Museum to ride the tourist railway because it’s schedule is Sat/Sun/Wed and public holidays at the moment. It’s all well and good travelling outside of school holidays, but sometimes attractions don’t run everyday unless they are catering to holidaying families. Our train driver, Geoff, delivered some commentary (and Dad jokes!) along the train’s route and recorded commentary filled in the gaps to provide us with a very good idea of how tough life was at the Moonta Mines.
We lunched again in Moonta, but at a different cafe to spread our $$ around town. After lunch we headed back to Kadina to fill up with diesel at the BP. The BP is opposite the water tower so we took the opportunity to photograph it again … this time without cars parked beside it!
With the tank full of diesel, it was time to leave the Copper Triangle behind. We headed north and took our first stretch break at Port Broughton. We really were lucky with our swim yesterday afternoon because when we stopped in Port Broughton the tide was waaaaay out again! To give our legs a
decent stretch we walked out to the end of the jetty and back again.
With the temperature hitting 30°C, we left the sea behind us heading for the trees tonight in a small town called Melrose at the foot of Mount Remarkable. On the way we travelled through Crystal Brook and Wirrabara. At Crystal Brook we found some art in the subway under the railway line. We were looking at the artworks featuring local women who had made a contribution to the Crystal Brook community when a goods train started clattering along the rails overhead! Even after I finished taking photographs and made my way back above ground the goods train was still passing by. It was a long one!
We knew that there was Silo Art to be viewed in Wirrabara so that was our next destination. We found the silos easily and admired the work by SMUG (a.k.a. Sam Bates) which features a man representing the hard working people of the forestry and agricultural community and a rare bird of the local area, a
Petrograd goodenovii which is commonly known as a red capped robin. Made possible through a Government of South Australia
Fund My Neighbourhood grant of $80,000 the work was completed in 20 days in October 2018.
With another piece of structure art ticked off we completed our journey to Melrose. We are trying something a bit different tonight in a cabin at a place called
Under the Mount. They mainly cater to mountain bikers with many trails in the area! The don’t have many guests in this weekend so we just about have full run of the place. It was just as well as we walked over to the top pub (North Star Hotel) only to find they were booked out tonight. Not to worry we had planned to cook on Sunday night and had already purchased all the ingredients, so we just switched our plans around. We booked a table for tomorrow night and walked back to
Under the Mount and cooked up some spag bol in the communal kitchen. Easy peasy … apart from the pot of water for the pasta taking FOREVER to come to the boil.
Our exercise goals have not been met the last couple of days, but that should be rectified tomorrow with plans to do some hiking in Alligator Gorge.
Steps
for today: 11,426 (7.7km)
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Caroline Brunner
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Thanks Tracey & Bernie - love following your journey which I should have done last August, BUT had to cancel. Looking now at 2023. Take care.