Thankyou Edward John Eyre...

Thinking about Eyre..what an adventourous young man he was... 23 years of age when he did all the exploring in this area across South Aust.
Eyre Peninsular, Eyre Highway and Lake Eyre...all harsh country.


From Whyalla we hit north to Iron Knob, then westward in various 'rain events'. Skiffy showers.


 A poor pic of Iron Knob, small settlement there, and a free mine tour M-F wrong days for us but I believe it is very good.
There is a speck on the right of the left mound, that is a crusher..the mounds are huge.

 Kimba..on the highway. Big galah statue there, one of the 'big' things you are supposed to see in Aus.
A nice little town with great  free off road camp areas...welcoming town. We stayed in the Lions Club area frequented by a local who loved to chat, a grain grower who retired into town 20 years ago. We unhitched here and did a 50 km circuit out to Buckleboo which was actually some huge grain silos, for wheat, barley and oats.
These silos with Viterra named (as are all the silos we have seen)  on them were operated by a canadian company but end of last year were taken over by Glencore another huge overseas commodity trader....so not Aussie owned...la la la.

Eyre and his indigenous friend..note the compas, no GPS or iphone.These sculptures are very interesting perched on a hill out of Kimba near the golf course.

 In the background..huge communication tower and our vehicle...think I am glad to be living in this century...what amazing changes we have experienced..coming from persons born before the middle of last century...ahhhhh

Bascombe Rocks.

On a good gravel road out of town we walked over and looked at some 'soaks'..in all our travels we have never seen these. The rock outcrops/mounds had moss growing on them and they were an natural water catchment system. This wall had been built to chanel water down to a dam and a soak area. It was a day after very little rain and as mentioned in litrature tadpoles had hatched and snails and wormy things..fascinating.

The pic is of a small patch of moss...I guess it burns off in the really hot weather.

This is a really pretty place..for the outback, there is beauty everywhere, just depends how you look at it I guess.

A lady in the laundry said to me today..you must have seen all Australia..
no way and we never will and every season and climate change offers new experiences.








Eyre Highway, ex Viterra grain silos and the water pipeline from Morgan on the Murray as previously mentioned, which ends in Ceduna but branches off all over SA..and when speaking to a local about it he claimed that SA only takes 7% of the flow..dunno bout that...he started going off about all the greedy so and so's in other states..outa that discussion!