Sat 16th January, Germein Gorge to Kyancutta 307 Kms travelled

It was now a case of just getting as close to the Nullabor as possible as quickly as possible, and then having a rest just before we crossed. Germein Gorge is 250 Kms North of Adelaide, but for the first day of driving it had felt a lot further.
Today we needed to buy supplies from Port Augusta, previously visited on our way TO the South coast of SA, so at least we knew where we were going. Then we would travel East from Port Augie across the Eyre Penninsula as far as we could go. I wasn’t sleeping that well, and felt exhausted from my holiday abroad (poor pet), so Darren had to do all the driving so I didn’t endanger us by doing a spot of median strip driving by mistake. As we were driving up to Port Augie (as I like to call it), Darren told me we could have got a ferry across to the Eyre Penninsula, 150 kms North of Adelaide – now he tells me, it would have saved us a few 100 kms, though cost us $100+, I blame myself for not reading around the subject. The highlight of this trip was a discussion as we passed through Kimba, (with it’s giant galah outside the general store), 90 Km to our destination, of whether Kimba was the name of ‘The Lion King’ or not. I have not seen the whole film, but as one of Darren’s favourites he assured me it was. These are the heights of conversation we managed to reach after not seeing each other for 3 weeks. Who says the art of conversation is dead?

That evening we arrived at our free camp spot in Kyancutta. The town seemed to consist of a road, a shop and Polkdinney Park next to the shop, where we camped. The town/hamlet had a few historic artefacts in the park, a scrub roller, water pump, wagon, road grader and Mouldboard plough, also names of the pioneers of the area were engraved on the park posts to commemorate them. There was also a sign depicting the history of the area. So many small towns in Australia have their pride of ‘place’, and historical literature can be found almost everywhere, making even the smallest hamlet interesting to visit. The further off the beaten track, the mors information there seems to be.
Not only did this place have interesting things to look at, it had a clean, four walled, roofed toilet block, which had me more excited than the historical artefacts.