Eyre Highway

Left Port Augusta before 9am and went onto the Eyre Highway which will take us all the way through to Norseman on the other end of the Nullarbor, some 1700km from Port Augusta. The Highway took us past Iron Knob and through lots of open country with small townships spread out along the way. Most of the small townships can be recognized from miles away by their huge grain silos.
We stopped at Kimba to admire the "Big Galah" (see picture).
Lunch stop was at a small settlement named Poochera where we found "Peter's Humpy", a small hut built by Peter Sheridan in 1920 from flattened kerosene tins!
We took a detour from the Eyre Highway to head for Streaky Bay. Just as well, as the Eyre Highway was blocked all day due to a fatal accident where 5 youngsters stole a vehicle in Norseman and drove it all the way across the Nullarbor, committing a few robberies along the way, and finally crashed into a tree just outside Ceduna. The driver was the only survivor.
Here in Streaky Bay we are back to coldish, windy weather, long pants and jumpers.