Strathalbyn South Australia to Western Australia

This episode covers over 2,000 Kms but has little photographic evidence; one of the travellers edited the camera one day and over 100 images are out there in cyber space.
In fact this is the penultimate chapter.
The route was Strathalbyn; Goolwa; Victor Harbour; Cape Jarvis;McLaren Vale; Adelaide;Melrose;Port Augusta;Kimba;Ceduna;Eucla; Noresman; Esperance.
A long-long way!!
We start at Strathalbyn which was a very pleasant town with us touring the Fleurieu Peninsular before going into Adelaide and visiting Patricia.who lives adjacent to the ancient Tram from Adelaide City to Glenelg.
The first image is the strangest house we have ever seen.
It is lived in as well!!
How the hell does it work??


The bulk of the time we were parked overnight when on the Peninsular in locations shown below outside our bedroom window.


So rustic
The entry into Patricia's driveway as can be seen tight.
In fact we had to call on the workers building a new tram bridge and have the gate post gas axed from it's concrete foundation, so in it went after that.
A very pleasant 10 days were spent at Patrica's especially as Anna (Katherine's sister) visited from America. needless to say Mike had a quiet time.

On one of our trips to the City we came across this giant lily pad.
This is just one of a number of pads in a special building that must of cost close to a $Million dollars.
Not sure this was money well spent.

Adjacent to the pad building was this very special sculpture.
Whatever the cost we liked this one.
Sheets of glass contoured as shown.



As you walk around it has a different perspective.

Finally this leaf was an image that has some meaning to us, it typifies the beauty of the sights seen - but our journey around Australia is nearing its end.

After Adelaide it was the Long jaunt up to Port Augusta across the top of the Eyre Peninsular and into Ceduna. This took us 6 days and one mishap - a puncture 18Km outside Ceduna - a ruined tyre plus a days wait for a new one which came overnight to Ceduna. Could have been worse 500 Km further on and may have been a significant issue!!

The Nullarbor to Esperance was anther 4 days of hard graft with our daily distance rising to just over 400Km on one day!!

Back to normal now and averaged just 120Km for the last few days.

Distance Travelled = 22,914 Km

Distance From Perth = 459 Km

Number of Days on the road =256