We were a bit disappointed with Port Lincoln, the things we wanted to see weren't available, so while the Toyota had a service at Peter Kittle - fantastic staff, work well done and well priced. Kath and I spent a couple of hours in the excellent Library there, oh and Kath loved the Lounge Chair Sculpture.
Drove in to see Talia Cave, the most amazing thing for me was the colour of the different types of rock, a salmon pink sand stone with yellow and orange sedimentary above it.
Then up to Cowell for the night, really quite little place right on the beach front, $10 a night, we saw the rain coming so it was an early start with a hurried pack up and just in time too as it absolutely bucketed down for the next 30 minutes or so while we drove north towards Whyalla, did the usual visit to the Info Centre there, just walked in the door when we were asked if we would like to do the Tour of the HMAS WHYALLA, why not so off we went with Liz and found out all about the first Corvette built in the ship yards, her war service as a mine sweeper and is now proudly in centre place at the museum. The rain caught up during the tour but was gone by the time we finished.
They advised us that the best free camp was out near Cape Lowell Light house on the edge of Fitzgerald Bay, had a look at that and the SANTOS oil/gas import-export facility nearby but they do not do tours.We found a reasonably sheltered spot for the night and woke this morning to see a pod of dolphins feeding just off the beach in front of us, easy drive back to Town for the tour of the steel mill, very interesting and informative. We were shown the full cycle of events from the raw hematite to the finished product, it was interesting to see a billet of steel about 3 meters long come out of a furnace soft as plaster sine then these being rolled out into 29 mtr railway line, the enriched pellets for export,very different to what I expected although it is still disappointing when, yes it is foreign owned. Australia owns bugger all when it comes to our resources, huge profits go overseas.
Saw an article about how King George Whititng was around $90 / kilo so we had lunch on the foreshore of whiting, salad and chips for $19.95, very nice it was too.
We had an easy afternoon drive over to Petersborough where we are spending the night, still windy but the cloud has gone and higher temps are expected over the next few days, we hope so anyway as these cold, gusty winds are wearing very thin.
Off to revisit the Barossa Valley tomorrow and restock the cellar.
Stay happy
Bob n Kath
No comments:
Post a Comment