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We made it! We left Adelaide as planned Saturday afternoon. It rained pretty much all day which made for tricky packing but that’s ok. We drove past Lochiel which had a likely fake Loch Ness monster in the largely empty lake... looked suspiciously like well placed old tyres but it was a humourous sight on an otherwise slightly boring road. Our first night we camped at a place we weren’t even going to stop at, Port Germaine, and we are so glad we did. It provided us with our first ‘Big Thing’ - Australia’s longest wooden jetty (pedants may argue this title belongs to Busselton in WA) and our first opportunity to send Drone up into the open skies ( instead of over the school paddock). We learnt about Semaphore flags, old tidal clocks and how tricky Geocaches can be to find.
We saw our second Big Thing today at the East-West half way point of Australia - a Big Galah at Kimba. Maybe you have to be a galah to come this far? Ha, we’re just beginning! Tonight we are at Streaky Bay, home to oysters, and enjoying the ‘amenities and facilites’ of a caravan park, probably our last for a few days. We stopped at Murphy’s Haystacks (of ‘Are we there yet’ fame) and marvelled at how odd these rock sculptures are, in the middle of flat paddocks.
Tomorrow we head west onto the Nullarbor Plain. We plan on getting a hole in one on the world’s longest golf course, seeing amazing cliffs and listening to Gullivers Travels on audiobook - apparently if you use the coordinates given in the book, The Great Australian Bight is the homeplace of the Lilliputian people.
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