Olary to Kimba

 Friday 19 August 2022

Day 5
Olary to Kimba

It's been a very cold night and the wind last night was almost of cyclonic proportions.  We were literally rocking in our motorhome.  It was hard to get out of bed in the cold, but we made it eventually! :-)  But before we leave I take a photo of Kevin's colourful socks, just for a funny photo on facebook. 

On the road again. Roadworks are not always avoidable, not even in the outback, so we stop at a lonely traffic light.

Next stop is at Yunta where we have morning tea and watch a number of rally cars coming in.  They were here much earlier than we, because the have been overtaking us on the open road.  They were re-fuelling and now stocking up on alcohol at the pub!

I realise much later that Patricia and I have stopped here as well and we had walked quite a distance out of town to find a geocache. I remembered our stop at Olary, but not this one.  Anyway, we're soon on our way again till we have to stop at the quarantine station at Oodla Wirra.  An officer has a look in the fridge to check for fruit, asks a few questions and when satisfied we're waved on.

At Orroroo we stop for lunch and after that I walk over to the side of the rest area to find a cache:

#2386 - Orroroo Rest (geocache)

In the meantime we have turned off in westerly direction and are now getting closer to our halfway mark. The ever-changing landscape and vegetation is still mesmerising.  Near Wilmington we are suddenly in the hills:

However, closer to Port Augusta it's all flat again, because we are nearing the inlet with lots of windmills and solar panels:

After filling up with fuel, groceries and a cup of coffee we start our last leg of the day, the road to Kimba.  We're then roughly halfway our trip to the west.  At Kimba we see our first Silo Art and after taking pictures we find a free (donation only) camp spot for the night at the Kimba Recreation Reserve (#581 33 08 04 S 136 24 54 E)