Port Lincoln

Port  Wakefiled, Kadino, Wallaroo,  on the ferry, Luckly Bay, Port Lincoln

4995km - not counting the ferry crossing

Left from Port Wakefield this morning for the short run through to Kadina where we stopped at the supermarket to get some healthy food for breakfast, then to McDonalds for coffee, no the real reason was to post my blogs for the last two days as my pocket wifi was playing up, think it must have been because we were in small towns so not getting a good reception from the satellites. Then it was a few more km through to Wallaroo where we were catching the ferry across to Lucky Bay. Had a bit of time to fill in so went to the museum. This area is called the copper triangle as copper was discovered in 1851 and was mined through to 1923 when due to the low price they were forced to close. The largest smelters outside of Wales were in this area.

Had a two hour ferry ride across Spencer Gulf to Lucky Bay. Not sure why it is called lucky bay, lucky to be there I would say, a few beach batches along the beach and not much else. Totally different kind of vegetation, low scrubby trees and small plants that almost look like alpine plants but obviously coastal in nature, very sandy ground. Then further along it is all large scale grain growing farms, growing wheat, barley, canola. The old method was to burn the stubble from the last harvest and then re-plant and some of the older farmers are still using this method. Younger farmers are just replanting amongst the stubble, and supposing using it as protection for the new plants. There were also sheep grazing where the grain had been harvested and they are having their lambs now. They are due to sow there grain crops soon in time to catch a bit of rain. It was raining all around us as we were heading to Port Lincoln, but not a drop on us.

It is very dry and barren looking, they get about 14 inches of rain a year if they are lucky.

Got into Port Lincoln half and hour before dark. We kind of felt we had cheated a bit today by cutting across on the ferry, but it would have been a long boring run up the A1 to Port Augusta and then back down again.


Port Lincoln, Blue Seas Motel, $90

This photo for Mum,the top of the cake made in 1954

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My Nana and Pop used to make things like this from shells they collected at Mt Maunganui

Map of where we've been, I need to get a darker pen