Penong to Port Augusta

5th October 2014

Another big effort by John on the driving today.  Great deal of confusion about the time - we went forward 1.5 hours from WA but hadn't realised that SA has also moved to daylight saving.  So we thought we did quite well leaving by 8:00am but it was in fact 9:00!

Ford Model A 1928

On the way we met a couple at a rest stop with their vintage car and custom made little van, which is just big enough to take a double mattress and nothing more!  The bloke made it himself.  The car is a Ford model A 1928, meticulously restored.  The owners had been to a rally in Bussleton,  We have seen many other vintage cars that took part in this rally.  

Anyway, we made good time through all the little wheatbelt towns and arrived in Port Augusta in time to go to Coles and stock up then arrive into the caravan park by 5:00. Normally this would be a problem, but it still isn't dark at 7:00. Huge variation in temperature today, we had lunch with a temp about 18 degrees and by the time we got here it was 33 with no signs of cooling off.  We have just given up on natural cooling and put the AC on for the first time on this trip.