We have just stopped at Bordertown for the night after about eight and a half hours driving. No photos so if that is all you come for, save your time!
We left early, which given daylight saving was pretty close to dawn. Drove up though Whyalla where we saw some of the iron or mining at the other end of the range that we saw at Iron Knob. They appear to be called the South Middle Back Ranges. With the one on the end a multitude of colours as it is being dug out. It is called Ironstone Hill, Further north is the Iron Baron and further again Iron Knob. Just about here we broke through the clouds into sunlight. We could see the container ships off Whyalla on the glowing water of the gulf.
Drove right through, it is pretty scrappy saltbush country around Whyalla. Stopped for Morning tea at Port Augusta after we had left the Eyre peninsula as we crossed the bridge in town.
After various fluid changeovers and a change of driver we headed out again with the southern Flinders on our left. Nothing much as a highlight.....we made sure we did not stop at Snowton.....look it up......we watched the huge line of windmills on the hill near the start of the Yorke Peninsula. The highlight though was the amusingly named Bumbunga Lake......I just automatically put a pause after the m. It is gloriously pink and leaves the Kaniva Pink Lake for dead. We did not stop though many did.
We stopped at Two Wells for lunch and a driver change. It is named Two Wells because it has two wells....natural ones.....that helped open up the area. They had a rose garden/park around the wells and joy of joy a stand up picnic table. When you have been in the car for a stretch standing helps straighten out the old bones.
Onward around the eastern suburbs of Adelaide and over the Adelaide Hills where the subie struggled. Nothing much of note apart from the huge line of cars coming back....many with their Crows regalia flying proud. We stopped at Coonalpyn for a final change of driver and a look at the Wheat Silo murals and had a small stretch into Bordertown where we will rest, eat and sleep.
Melbourne tomorrow
