You pull out of the van park in Port Augusta right onto the highway to Perth. 100 metres down the road is the sign where you turn north – to Darwin. Now we are definitely on our way. Our first stop is at Woomera, described by all as ‘an outback town’, so it’s official, we’re in the Outback!
The country is vast more than flat. There’s just so much of it. You drive for an hour and at the top of a slight rise there is s photo opportunity, a view over one of the many dry salt lakes.
Woomera had an interesting display of all the rockets and unmanned jet aeroplanes they buzzed about with. It’s a pretty big town, and hard to tell if there’s actually anyone here apart from the info and museum staff.
Pulled into Glendambo for the night – our first van park behind a roadhouse. Its just huge, must hold a hundred vans and twice as many campers. Today it’s just a big empty patch of dirty gravel, but as the sun sinks slowly in the west the dawdlers are all pulling in off the highway. Bit safer than driving at night with emus, roos, cows, trucks all out to get you. At least we have power and a loo. Going to have a nice glass of wine in the pub before dinner.
Snap of the day
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| Hang a right and head north for the next month - Darwin here we come! |
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