Tues. 5th May 2015

Been a while since we left Murray Bridge, also been a while for me to catch up with time & power & phone signal to send email.

We were supposed to be able to get signal here tonight at Salmon Gums, between Norsman & Esperance WA, but we can’t.

After Murray Bridge we did camp at the old Terowie railway station.  This is where General Douglas Macarthur made a special speech in 1942.

Prior to arriving there we had visited the old copper mining towns of Kapunda & Burra. Kapunda was established in 1839 & is classified as Australia’s oldest mining town.

I do hope to get time to give a little more detail in the blog when I can get around to it.

From Terowie it was on to Peterborough, where there was a older models car display happening at the railway station. Morning tea was at Orroroo before going to Port Augusta for lunch and fuel. By the time we made camp at Kimba, Saturday was almost gone.  Kimba claims to be halfway across Australia.  The Kimba recreation reserve is a very nice place to camp. We had Sunday lunch at Ceduna before fuelling up and going on to the Nundaroo East roadside rest area, which we shared with a couple from Tasmania.

We were a little disappointed to find that the best viewing areas for the Bunda Cliffs of the Great Australian Bight have been close due to safety reasons.  There are now only 4 areas accessible toward the western end of the bight  before reaching the WA border.  After the border inspection, we turned into Eucla for lunch.  We had been pushing very strong head & side winds for a few hours, and this continued for the rest of the afternoon.  The fuel that we bought at Ceduna, the first quarter of a tank took us 290 Km, then we hit the wind & the next HALF of the tank only took us 272 Km. luckily we had a quarter left to get to Mundrabilla.  Still had wind blowing until we reached Moonera Tank 12 to camp for the night, sharing the large area with an older couple from Bunbury.

The wind had eased this morning and we had a better run to Norsman for a late lunch before coming here for the night.

So far we have travelled 4134 Km and spent $673.76 on diesel.  (504.43 ltr.)

That brings us up to date.  Sorry for the long story tonight.