A long drive across our magnificent country to reach Port Augusta. We are amazed at what a wonderful land we live in.
Big 4 Caravan Park on the edge of town to be our home for the next few days. A lovely waterfront shopping centre for us to restock our supplies for the next part of our journey.
A visit to the Royal Flying Doctor Service was a highlight, we watched a short film on the origins of the service and also of some cases they dealt with. An amazing service available to all, and it is a free service to the public. Fortunately for us there was a plane in and we were able to board it to see the set up. Each plane costs $6 million dollars and the service has 61of these planes across Australia, mostly funded by donations, so of course we made our contribution.
Also the viewing tower at the Rotary Park where at four stories high we had a great view of the town and the whole area, which lies at the very tip of the Spencer Gulf so you could see over the mud flats, the mangrove swamps and the glorious hills as a background which were changing colors as we were watching as the clouds rolled over and the sun peeped in and out.
We also visited the Arid Botanical Gardens and the Watjata Aboriginal Info Centre which houses an amazing aboriginal culture display, but we decided not to pay the very high price of entry as we will be experiencing the real thing along our way.
The weather is great, lovely warm days and very cold nights and early mornings.
I have had a great deal of difficulty with the internet in Port Augusta so hopefully I will be able to post photos shortly.
We are off to Roxby Downs and Andamooka this morning and hope to find a good place to free camp tonight, We have been given a couple of locations from other travellers, so we will check them out.
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Lucky Lucky Laurie.
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