Woke up the same time in the morning as Mike (older guy with the
caravan). Whilst he went out in their kayak they had brought along
searching for crabs I cast out the fishing line to see if I got
lucky.
Whilst the line was out
I made myself some breakfast, consisting of porridge with water.
Packed up my gear next to that and by the time Mike came in I was
ready to go. He had only seen two small crabs so left them. A local
came along in his Ute with his dog on the back and only had a small
fish and no crabs to show for the morning catch, so we didn't feel to
bad about getting nothing.
Set of after saying
good byes and headed along dirt trails to Port Broughton. A very hot
day and as soon as you get out you are swarmed by persistent flies.
Only way to loose them is to start driving and put your windows down
until all of them are sucked out. Passed a lot of ruins of old farm
houses that became obsolete when the farms started growing bigger.
Driving towards Port
Pirie a mountain range came in to view with a large amount of
windmills settled on top. Drove along that for a while and eventually
reached Port Pirie and had to go shopping. The past couple of test
runs camping, I found out that my bivi tent condensates so much that
I wake up wet and damp in the morning and my sleeping bag is about
30cm to short. I thought they had a standard length for sleeping
bags, but it seems that is not the case. So I went in to an outdoor
shop and purchased a small two man tent and a sleeping bag that fit
(actually got in to it in the shop to make sure). After getting rid
of that money I bought a salad in Woolworths and had my lunch before
carrying along the busy main road to Port Augusta. As I am sticking
to 80km/h to save fuel (I'm not in a rush anyway) I get overtaken by
everything. Cars, Utes and massive Road Trains. The last ones aren't
fun when they overtake you, but I have survived until now. I wanted
to turn of and sleep in a camping spot near Hancocks Lockout, but
there was a fence going straight through the track, so I abandoned
that thought.
Further on to Port
Augusta then and I found a free camp site just on the entrance to the
town. There was another guy there already (Australia bloke) who has
travelled around everywhere in his van. It's his home and he has done
a lot to it and even has a dog with him. Shortly after a French guy
showed up and needed some tools fixing his oil filter. And after him
a German couple appeared (Silvio a. Lisa) on their way to Adelaide
from Perth. Germans, Germans everywhere. They had a set up to be
jealous of (solar panel, fridge, mattress beds, diesel, big roof
rack,...). But after hearing they had to pay over 6000$ to get it on
to the road and there is some issue with their fuel (50litres on
300km, something is wrong) I am still happy with my Forester. Has
taken me everywhere I want to go till now and is good on fuel.
So pitched the new tent
for the night and lets see how things go.
Track at GPSies.
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