The Concrete Crappa!!

 A 180 km trip from Kimba to Minnipa for the day and another free camp spot maintained by the Apex Club...very little town, more grain silos.


Again we unhitched in the morning and went touring, on other trips we were not in the Freedom Lifestyle mode..









Yep this is the the 'public convenience' at Minnipa.

 This area was a few km out of town and would have been lovely to camp at, missed it and it was mentioned in the Wikicamps app..poo

Note the 'outback dunny' to the left amongst the trees, camera went flat just when I wanted to take a classic shot.

 Many of the early settler houses were built like this out of stones collected near by, still plentyof stones/rocks around, very rocky country.

This is the edge of a lovely rocky outcrop, water directed into a concrete drain and into a dam

 Like I have said no shortage of rock and hard work.

 



 My Mick..could have pushed this over a few years ago!















From the top of the rock, rain storms passing in the distance, no rain for the wheat oats or barley crops which were just starting to sprout. The concrete drain to the dam is amongst the trees in centre of picture .



This is in the Gawler Ranges area an area which we think would be great to go to in either Autumn, or late spring for a few weeks. Maybe next year sometime...

At Minnipa..built in the 1920..the largest concrete water storage in the southern hemisphere..reckon the 'men' of today better think about 'manning up'...


We popped into Streaky Bay..we had stayed there on other occasion, not much changed size wise to the town but very nice street scaping in progress. Nice long jetty walk, and a shop keeper should have been pleased to see us.....we have been croc-ed!

 

this was another overnighter just before Ceduna and a CARAVAN PARK, our first park in 3 weeks, and that was real POWER that a very long SHOWER!

 

Smokey Bay and Ceduna..Oyster capital of Aus!

Oyster leases out of Smokey Bay, the boat just before this was stacked high with loaded oyster racks, I guess this was the overflow...

 

this is how we travel with wet laundry..

 

and this is what happens when I have not done a thorough 'cabin check'!

Corelle is good!

I have had the fridge contents on the floor..once!

Sugar and coffee can be messy too, done that once!

Shit happens..goodnight!