Adelaide to Port Augusta

27/7/23

We travelled 330 km from home to our stop for the night at the discovery Park at Port Augusta. We are in the Prado and heading for a unit at Streaky Bay, so no camping gear with us this trip.

I’m going to relax for a week while Trev goes fishing with Bob and Craig. Hopefully I will get some nice down time with Bev, but I also have jigsaws, quilting, planning for a walking camp and also some holiday planning, documentation of future plans and cleaning up of my PC to do (clean out the emails and sort the photos). I’m pretty sure I won’t get through all of that.

We had breakfast with Maggie (visiting from WA) before heading home to do the last of our holiday prep, and left home just before midday. First stop the fuel station. Then we were heading out to Gepps Cross and the Port Wakefield Rd. The rain fell intermittently and the day was grey.

Late lunch was a pie each and shared vanilla slice at Pop Kiplings bakery at Port Wakefield with a hopeful gull and many little sparrows for company before we braved yet more roadworks. It’s hard to understand why the traffic speed is so limited when the roadworks are so distant from the current road.

We stopped for a cuppa and short rest break at Warnertown and watched a goods train with 90 trucks pass by as we sat in the car watching the rain and having our hot drinks. Then we headed onwards again.

We arrived in Port Augusta about 4:15 and headed straight for the CV Park and our little motel cabin with 2 comfy beds. Here we had reheated lasagna for dinner and relaxed until an early bedtime. (Trev wasn’t so relaxed until he turned off the cricket)