More about Port Augusta

Wadlata Outback Centre. What an amazing place. We manage to spend 2 hours in the exhibition. Mix of movies, visual displays and some interactive stuff at the end. Teaching us about aboriginal dream time and early European history in Australia.

Kids found it fascinating. Timna took photographs of all and is in the process of creating her own project. Funny we thought we would struggle to get the kids to do school work, when in fact they keep asking us for homework. They say they are so used to being at school they miss it!!!!

Have had to think about little projects for them to do. Though they have informed us that an hour a day woud be the max they will spend on school stuff!!


Very early telecommunication network. May be this is what I need to reduce my chatability????
The Caravan park we are staying on is right on the shoreline of the Spencer Gulf. Hence the name Shoreline Caravan Park.
It is here we note some differences to other parks we have been.
The caravan park has a curfew of 9.30pm. Gates close, that means to pedestrians as well as cars. There is also barbed wire on the tops of the fences surrounding the caravan park.
Signs around the park reminding you that even though you may be on holidays the thieves are not.
Despite how all that might sound, we felt very secure in the park and throughout Port Augusta in general.
It is here in Port Augusta that you become aware of the increasing numbers of Aborigines in the community. Our children have started noticing the contrast from home.

Port Augusta is much bigger and busier than we expected.
It is known as the crossroads - all traffic flowing east to west and north to south passes through here.
There is also the train line from Adelaide to Darwin right that passes right behind the caravan park. Our last count had 100 freight carriages on the train.

These were taken on the beach in front of the caravan park. An extremely windy day.