Monday arrived and it was fine and looked as though it might be a reasonable day. With cloud cover overnight meant that we had a bit higher temperature. It ‘only’ dropped to around 3 degrees during the night! It topped at 18 degrees during the day. The temperatures will be similar for a while yet.

Prue had a bad night coughing and later in the day managed to get to see a doctor. She has bronchitis so has to do inhalations and take Panadol with a script for antibiotics in her folder. My cough still annoys me at night. One day we will get over it.

Our touring this morning was mainly around the city. To get us going for the morning, we had a coffee at Ozzies Cafe in town. It was not as good as some we have had but the Cafe was nice and warm and clean. It seems to be popular. We noticed a large number of aboriginals in the town which we had not seen before. Maybe they were off watching football previously!

The next stop was to the Information Centre to get details not only on the town but also for our future days in the Flinders Ranges. There is so much to look at and one has to cull out the things that do not really appeal to us.

After taking a few photos near the shopping centre, we then travelled a few kilometres to the McLellan Lookout where the explorer, Matthew Flinders, came ashore in March 1802. From here, there is a magnificent view of the Flinders Ranges to the east and the Bluff Ranges to west and on the far side of Spencer Gulf.

Then we did a drive around the area. On this run, we passed by the Homestead Park Pioneer Museum. We could see through the fence that had very similar displays to the Museum we visited in Inverell a couple of weeks ago, so we did not go in. Then we passed the School of the Air, again we decided not to go in as we saw the one in Mount Isa last year. Following this we drove along until we came upon the massive shunting rail yards. We can hear the activity from the Caravan Park at almost any hour. As I mentioned in a previous post, it is the crossroads of Australia for the railway with trains going east and west and to the north. Some of the containers appear to be almost double deckers especially the car carriers.

Soon after, we visited the Water Tower Lookout and beautiful gardens. From the top of the tower one can get a beautiful view of the city and surrounding mountains, or hills to you Kiwis.

Then we came back to the Karavan for lunch as Prue was feeling a little wretched. During this time I phoned for a doctor’s appointment for Prue and she was in luck in the late afternoon not far from the Caravan Park.

While Prue was at the doctor, I went and refuelled the Bravo and also took on 20 litres more as the heater and cooktop have used more than we did on our trip last year, but it is mainly the heater using it. The bravo has been using a bit more than last year but I believe it is because we have been pushing into headwinds. Hopefully, that will change from now on.

Our meal tonight was beef stroganoff that was cooked beautifully in the Dreampot. This was, as usual, eaten with a nice red wine we have on board. So ends our visit to Port Augusta.