It was another long, long drive from Coober Pedy until we reached civilisation at Port Augusta. It had rained so much that the city had flooded and caused what looked like a brown swimming pool to form across the road. Australia...you can't handle the rain. The journey continued on to Port Germein. The home of the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere... and not much else. As we pulled into the camp, there was an old rusty bicycle chained to a tree reading 'emergency vehicle only'. In any other town, I would have taken this as a joke but here, I wasn't so sure. Because of the rain, we couldn't sleep in our swags so were given a chalet type thing with two rooms. One with three bunks all piled on top of each other
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