ON OUR WAY TO PORT AUGUSTA

Another awful nights sleep….today is Mothers day so I had a call from the kids…Kristian didn’t seem happy…..said he was exhausted….. Breakfast had before we left.
Headed to Oliver’s for brekky after packing the gear into the car..
Off we set on the lunar scale landscape as we drive to Port Augusta….
Very sparse arid countryside…. Looked like ground zero….
We stopped for morning tea at a tiny place called Glendambo….the pub there looked great 2 big servos…John bought fuel @ $1.97.09 there….we had fruit cake and I had cheese and biscuits….
Then off we set off….
I took pics of wedge tail eagles….and more dead Roos and Emus on the road than we have seen all trip…
We suddenly came across a massive salt lake….Lake Hart…wow what a huge bonus seeing this truly magnificent site...great reflections….the Ghan train line running right along the lake…as we walked to the lake was a massive mound we thought was limestone but turned out to be huge mounds of salt dumped when this was obviously a mined lake…..had old wooden posts in the low waters across the lake….while there a freight train came along looking awesome as reflection…..then John headed back to get drone shots while Bill and I went up the sand dune next to the lake to get other shots…Bill met a young family doing the loop for a year….heaps of vans etc parked in the area….after that we decided to make lunch which Bill had gratefully heated our chicken chippies so I made a salad last of the lettuce 🥬….and we had the rolls I bought yesterday….
Lunch had ours taken…then off we speed down the Hwy to see more lakes, both clay pan and salt…massive rolling hills…with little but a bit of green cover over them…then there would be huge stances of my fluffy African trees….just loved this…
Stopped at the Island View lake for a quick pic…unreal view again…
Then last stopped at Ranges View lookout…seeing the Finders Rangers…..
It’s been a long haul today…heard from Anne-Maree listened to me cherished Christian friends from Sarah and do wonder if it’s made me feel so down…as I feel really depressed and tired tonight…
The G/Day caravan park we arrived at just before 5pm is very depressing…supposed to be Shoreline….it’s not the best but we are here…..
I opened up to John and Bill how I felt I think it helped…too bad if they couldn’t cope…

Bad day all round yesterday…
Vomiting after dinner…
Not sure why I had it hoped some of our food wasn’t off…didn’t taste it but who knows…En savoir plus