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Tuesday May 2nd
Well, we reckon we are 1/4 of the way around Australia on our big adventure! We have driven over 5,000 kilometres since we left home and this is day 72, so on both counts we are around 25% through our circumnavigation of Australia.
This morning was bright and fine so after breakfast we headed south out from Louth Bay and down towards Port Lincoln after taking a picture of the glistening sea at the Louth Bay jetty.
Along the way we came to The Black Stump. Well, the official black stump was destroyed a few years back after a bush fire. The new Black Stump is actually a Black Rock - more fire proof! The Black Stump commemorated an early mission established in the area in 1850 called the Pooninde Mission. Now it seems to me that there are several Black Stumps. One was at Cowell, and someone stole it, so a replacement has been found for that one. I also recall we saw The Black Stump at the Back of Burke. I wonder how many more black stumps we will find.
The picture has a typical rural landscape in the back ground with
the whitish look of the post harvest stubble. There have been a lot of road trains moving grain to the port ready for export. So we must have just missed the harvest by a few weeks.
Port Lincoln was investigated as a possible capital for South Australia. However, there is limited fresh water here. It seems water from the Murray is piped here and those other small towns we have just passed through.
PL is quite a prosperous centre with a very large grain export centre, the base for Australia's tuna fishing fleet and a selection of prawn and general fishing fleet. If the winds had not been so high, I would have gone to a unique experience where you can swim with the tuna and feed them as well. There is another where you can swim with the wild sharks too, but I didn't want to loose any digits from my calculators.
There is a great lookout behind Port Lincoln with 360 view. Not far from there is a great winery recognised for its high quality Shiraz and Riesling wines. Dellacolline Winery is worth a visit, and try the 2009 Shiraz for a really classy red.
We were able to get a small part from a local caravan repair man here and secured the cable properly that feeds the external power point on the motorhome. That should solve the problem where we had one connection coming loose on the power point.
We are camped at the Billy Light's Point marina car/boat trailer park. The local council sells permits for self contained vehicles to use this facility overnight for a small fee. The corner of the park we chose is quite sheltered from the wind, whereas the local camping ground is on the opposite side of the bay and getting a real blast.
There is a walkway around the point from here which in times past was a loop of a few kilometres of easy walking. Since then, erosion has cut the path into two sections, so we went back the way we came. Once we went around the point we copped that cold breeze and were glad when we came back to the MH out of the wind. There were many seabirds around displaying their flying ability on the updraft at the point - gliding forward and up and then side slipping away
at speed just to return and do it all again a few minutes later. I wouldn't mind having a go myself!
No pretty sunset due to cloud, but an hour or two later and the cloud was gone, the milky way was clear and bright, and the lights of Port Lincoln twinkled across the bay. Had a chuckle at the pelican pole preening post. , so we have a pelican in profile at dusk.
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Some great shots
Great photos and comment again. It looked windy and cool in some shots, liked the shots of the Pelican