Arid Garden

Australian Arid Lands Botanical Garden.

Just outside Port Augusta and beside the Spencer Gulf - It is a great display of the plants of arid Australia. There are many birds, some Singlebacks and a great cafe.

Hail storm

Our car is copping it in a hail storm at Port Augusta. 

Inside the caravan we cannot hear each other speak.

Spencer Gulf

View of the tip of Spencer Gulf.

Another rest day this time in Port Augusta. 

Road Skink

Singleback Lizard

As I drove from Peterborough to Port Augusta I noticed what appeared to be sticks crawing across the road. 

They were Singlebacks.

Alas we have no bananas

Today we drove from Broken Hill to Peterborough crossing the NSW-SA border. There was a sign adjacent to a ditch- not much to show.

There were long patches of reduced speed for road works but not much actual work.

There rest stops in SA so far have been very primative - a place to pull over with shaded picnic table, and that's all.

About 18km before Peterborough we were stopped and handed over all our fruit - tomatoes, pumpkin, avocados, strawberries and papaya. I was really looking forward to eating that papaya.

Rest Day

Marking up the map on the side of the A'van - something to do on a rest day.

Very pleasant weather today in Broken Hill.

Emu Parade

These Emus were in parade formation until a photographer (not me) approached the fence. Then they all wanted to be in the photo.

We took the Kidman Way from Bourke to Cobar. A great road with little traffic. But there were lots of goats (feral?) grazing  at the roadside.

Cobar was a decent town and worth a longer stay but we just stayed for lunch. There was a pair of Mulga Parrots guarding a nest box near the information centre. Very pretty -red, green, yellow and blue.

Cobar to Broken Hill was much busier and the waterways became sandy rather than watery.

We saw emus.

This was a long drive in one day; we will try to make our future drives shorter.