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Great pics Del, hope your tetanus jabs are up to date
I can't imagine too many of those bottles making it back to Blighty - can't actually imagine them making it out of Adelaide Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
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11th Apr 2023 12:23 pm
Rescue01
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I hear that they’re a cyclone heading for North Western Australia. Hope you battened down Del with that wine Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
14th Apr 2023 11:42 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Luckily we’re at t’other end of the country, at top of Yorke Peninsular. Been in a heritage cottage for 3 nights with no t’internet, luckily now in a motel in Kadina and t’internet is back. And data withdrawal shakes are subsiding. Will post some pics later, too busy schluping one of the really nice bottles of VC that escaped Adelaide.
15th Apr 2023 6:59 am
Gareth Site Moderator
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Maybe you’re confusing Cape York which is Northwest. Not sure Del would get there in a hire car!
15th Apr 2023 9:46 am
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Deffo not that cape, we’re on the Yorke one, the one where Harvey (Honda HRV hence not called Henry, much to its annoyance) is allowed.
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We stayed at the old Post Office in Inneston olde worlde settlement, now part of the “national” park, well SA park. It was pretty basic, luckily had a gas stove as it was a bit parkie. Also was blowing a hoolie last night and lots of clanking from the water tank all night. I think i got about 20 mins sleep last night, but can’t have been as no way am I crankie enough for that!
Pics:
Breakfast view.
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The hamlet was an old gypsum mine, pulling gypsum out the lake. We stayed in the old post office. This machine dragged the gypsum to the coast, after horse and steam.
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Said coast.
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And what’s left if the Ethel, not much left of it, and much less than Google suggests!
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Lastly, from a sea view point of view, a most unPC named Chinaman’s Hat Island!
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And our SWEEEEEEEEET neighbours. Lovely wallabies that didn’t mind us being there, they just looked at us and munched the grass at dusk.
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Not forgetting emus that SWMBO spotted, the cry of EMU ALERT went up!
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And geese like birdies!
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And passed through Minlaton where this old ac was on display. Harry Butler’s Red Devil Memorial. Lovely old aircraft, and Harry died doing what he loved, flying. Not crashing! Though the latter did shorten his life somewhat. As a RFC pilot in WW1, hats off to him.
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Oh, and food pic. Previously we bought a couple of takeaway pizza’s from the only eatery for 100km and they were pretty mingie, plus A$46 for both. Yesterday did the lunch special, beef schnitzel with chips (not fries) and salad for A$10 (£5.50) each. All was forgiven.
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Now back to food from Woolworths and a motel with TV and a mobile signal, all is well with the world.
15th Apr 2023 10:04 am
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“Woolworths”???? Have you entered some kind of time portal ? If so please bring me back some of the pick & mix I miss that on a Saturday morning after being dragged round town by the parents I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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15th Apr 2023 1:34 pm
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Still here, going strong. But nothing to do with Woolies of old back home, just same name. And haven’t investigated P&M as my body is a temple.
15th Apr 2023 10:23 pm
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And greetings from Eyre Peninsular, or EP as it’s known locally. Took the ferry from Yorke Peninsular (strangely not YP) that saved us a 350km haul today up to Port Augusta and then back down. It was bye to one massive wheat growing area:
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To same on the other side, view from Port Lincoln hotel room.
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It’s back to jousting with 3 trailer road train, well trained in the dark art of finding a quick place to pull over and let them through. Discretion is deffo the better part of valour, plus they want to go a lot faster than us, and they are prob pulling over 100t of grain.
Haven’t had a food pic for a while, and in the world of food a couple of days is a while, so this is from lunch/dinner at a fresh fish place the other side of PL. Really nice tempura’s flathead for MrsDSL and I had salt and pepper squid & popcorn prawns, both with salad and as a bonus there is a nice layer of chips under the squid & prawns. Yum!!
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Now back to hotel, nice bottle of Coonawarra VC on the go, purely to wash down the bickies. And yes, it was close enough to 3:30pm for us.
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Now just sitting back and enjoying watching the traffic. Unfortunately there was a nicely spec’d up new Defender when we went shopping, “unfortunately” in that I didn’t get a pic of it.
17th Apr 2023 7:00 am
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And last night in PL, or Port Lincoln to those not using initials.
Booooooooootiful sunset Monday night reflected in the clouds, like the sky was on fire.
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We did a boat tour around the areas, looking at shipping/fishing and wildlife.
This little boat is now full with 70,000 tonnes of grain and should be off tonight. That’ll make a lot of bread!
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Here is the part of the wharf where a bulk carrier decided to use a A$20m new tuna fishing boat as a fender! This is the view the captain would have had.
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Before he did this.
Luckily no-one on the fender tuna boat.
Finished the trip seeing Australian sea-lions. Some big boys in there, one giving our boat a bit of attitude. We also saw a couple of dolphins but no pics.
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Today was a drive to Coffin Bay and the CB Nat Park. Fantastic views and great spotting Monster Bush Chucks, otherwise known as Emus.
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Gratuitous pano.
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And as we were talking, well thinking of food, and as it’s almost lunch time back home, food in PL has been fab!! The hotel had steak night yesterday, A$19 (shade over £10) for a 300g rump with chips and salad. Even better with 2 x A$10 vouchers for hotel not servicing the room. For those that haven’t traveled since covid hotels mostly CBAed providing daily room servicing, just something we’re used to. But this hotel gives you a A$10 voucher per service not done, mega happy with that as each of these steaks was A$10, about £5.50. Bargain for fab scoff. All followed up by a bottle of Coonawarra Shiraz back in the room.
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And last meal here this lunch time, fantastic local muscles, as seen on the boat yesterday. Even bought some smoked fish for tomorrow’s scoff after we head up the coast a bit. Yum!
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Back on the road tomorrow, Steaky Bay here we come!
19th Apr 2023 8:04 am
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Few pics from the road. First the good old Aussie Road Train! Luckily didn’t see any yesterday, this one was a couple of days ago as driver wondered if he’d fit through KFC’s drive through.
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Each of those trucks carries 100t (we think) and the silo farm at the port holds 400,000t, that’s a lot of KFCs needed to fill the storage! And that ship in the above pics takes 70,000t, it headed off to Aden yesterday am, so shade under only 6 of them would empty it!
Thankfully on the road yesterday there was virtually no trucks, and very little anything else.
Now the Aussies take their tin tenting very seriously and they have 4x4/Ute & van combos most here would sell a kidney for, but this trumps all! Put Harvey well in the shade, well would have if the sun had been out.
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Finally, just S of Streaky Bacon Bay. Some of the oldest rocks on the planet (3Ga) and called Murphie’s Haystacks. Nice little side trip.
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Mind you, not a lot else around!
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Now heading up to Ceduna and keep heading W. They say carry lots of liquids when in the desert, tick, though ours is grape juice variety!
20th Apr 2023 11:05 pm
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And greetings from:
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And to save peeps googling where that is, it’s here:
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On the drive from Ceduna it went from
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Not sure re the treeless bit, a few trees might have been spied on the horizon.
Promise of a nice combo of wildlife spotting
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And the sign from the RH, not stalking Aussie caravan owner’s, honest.
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But they might have been keeping out the way of the big 4 trailer ore carried RTs!
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This place has one of the holes in the worlds longest game of golf (as signposted in above pic, 1,365km Kalgoorlie to Ceduna) near here is the Dingo’s Den hole, par 5 (whatever that means) & 538m . Mind you, this handy snake ID guide on the back of the hotel door is enough to put me off!!
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Just got to remember I don’t have to our run the snake, just outrun SWMBO.
21st Apr 2023 5:55 am
Gareth Site Moderator
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Interesting concept! Golf on a road trip! I take it you didn’t fancy a go?
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Not really, never played golf before and not sure this would be the best place to start, considering the critters that hide in the rough which I know I would hit. The word “neurotoxin” comes up a bit too frequently when googling the various snake types.
21st Apr 2023 7:37 am
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And here is said hole. Just imagine all things snake-like beastie on both side of the fairway!
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And a beautiful sunset when seen from the RH helipad. First time we’ve stayed somewhere with its own helipad!!
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Now settled in watching The De Vinci Code on TV, all while improving the mpg of Harvey by reducing the weight of cargo (of the VC variety) in the boot. Hic!
21st Apr 2023 10:51 am
tanters
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Great pics! Fabulous country.
I played golf in a place called Lake King, WA, not a big distance from Norseman, and the locals used to mix old sump oil with sand for the 'greens' so it would be reasonably hard for a ball to roll over. Smooth out any marks or divets with a pipe after. Ingenious bas**rds out there
Also, very important to put your ball where you can see it. Anything gone into a bush was left there. Between redbacks and snakes, it wasn't worth the risk to put your hand into.
Nobody should die for a pointless sport like that
Continued safe travels A happy childhood ... is the worst possible preparation for life.
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