Full Circle

Saturday, 18 September

Just like yesterday, this morning was a cold, dull, dreary and dismal day in Port Lincoln. It didn’t take long to pack up and head north for Port Augusta. The first part of the journey was along the coast, with its grain farms inland and tuna farms along the shore. As we neared Whyalla, and a rather large Onesteel mine, the desert reappeared, although with a very green covering. We scooted around the edge of Whyalla but did drive past the steel mills. We arrived at Port Augusta shortly after noon.

The circle has now been completed!

We are staying at the Port Augusta Big 4 Caravan Park with its very narrow, gravel sites (no option of putting out the awning here!) and very good amenities. We were officially put on our site, but I could probably have taught the man a bit about how to back a caravan – “go back and move over a bit” doesn’t really help the driver. However, he was very pleasant and tried to be helpful.

The sun short of shined this afternoon (for a little while, anyway) through the high haze, but the wind was straight from the South Pole.