Day three................Saturday, November 11th

After our rest day, we were up early, had brekkie, packed up and were on the road by 8am!! The weather was much cooler, although still a bit windy. 

We looked at this sign, and laughingly wondered about Darwin, but stuck to our original plans to head West.

The landscape was changing to more arid, bushy vegetation after we left Pt Augusta. Headed towards Iron Knob which you can see in the distance of this photo. This mine had been closed for a few years, but is now a working mine again. We did not go into Iron Knob, as we had both been here years ago.

We soon came across farming land around Kimba, which is the halfway across Australia stopping point,.....

........and home too the big galah, which has recently had a paint job and now looks very much cared for.

We refueled at Kimba, before heading further with a stop at Wudinna.  There were many signs of harvest occurring with headers in the paddocks and semi trucks delivering grain to the silos. At Wudinna, there is this statue of a farmer and sheep. Apparently Wudinna is the agricultural town of the year.  A quick stop was made at the local Foodland store for a stockup of icecreams, and forgotten sox and jocks!!

Next stop was at Poochera, where the only roadhouse has now closed. We made lunch in the van and ate it there.

The next town was Ceduna, where we had thought to stay, but it was still only 2.30pm, so after a quick tour around the town, we decided to keep going. 

Next stop was at Penong, where there is a large collection of windmills......

...........and this is the largest windmill in Australia.

Not far from Penong, there was a campsite that Barry had visited a few years ago, so we decided to head for that. After following a very rough road for about 20km, we found out that there was no longer camping allowed at Cactus Beach!! 

So we turned around and drove back to Penong Caravan Park for the night.

Along the way to the beach we passed these huge sandhills...........

.....and also these mounds of white 'stuff' had us wondering what it was. There were a few signs saying keep out, and had GRA mining Operations listed. So after a bit of googling, we found out that this site was the largest Gypsum deposit in the southern hemisphere!! .....what did we do to find out this info before Mr Google??

At the end of 2 days travel we had covered 1,160km since home.

Blessings, From Jude