Day 4 - Day 5
We left Adelaide on Monday and drove 322km to Port Augusta. Port Augusta is a small town in the middle of.... well nowhere. We spent some time trying to determine what Port Augusta is famous for (we still don't really know....) Matt has a theory that every town has to be famous for something and as we enter a town he says: "I wonder what this town is famous for..." (Like every, single time). Nick has started googling in advance; tying to provide him with the answer before he asks the question. I think Matt needs to accept that towns such as Iron Knob, Poochera, Koongawa and Yaninee are just towns and they are famous for absolutely nothing. And every now and then you came across a treasure like Kimba which is famous for the big galah.
The Port Augusta caravan park was on a bed of rocks but good. We toured the Port Augusta Museum (5/10) and also the Royal Doctors Flying Services (8/10). The SA headquarters is based in Port Augusta. They have three planes (valued at $6m) with another five in Adelaide doing up to 25 'transports' a day. It demonstrated how important this service is to rural Australia more so when were driving down a long stretch of road in the middle of nowhere.
Following Port Augusta we drove 400km to Streaky Bay which we love! Our campsite is right on the beach and we have had a lovely evening hanging by the beach. The weather was perfect and the kids spent the evening doing running races up and down the beach. Matt says Streaky Bay is famous because at night people streak along the bay....
We have a new rule (I make the rules). If you are singing along to a song you must at least know two full sentences of the chorus in order to join in.... There is to be no more: "You've go to mumble mumble roll them. Mumble mumble walk away or.... run." There are to be no more mumbles. (And I am not talking about Matt, there is no way he wouldn't know all the words to a song...)
Tomorrow's plan is to take the small drive to Ceduna (112Km) after spending the day in Streaky Bay. We have a few big days of driving ahead of us before we get to the West Coast. As long as we all sing, and not mumble we shall be fine.....
Love the Stevens' x
#making memories
The crew x
Streaky Bay
There's nothing more fun than running races on the beach