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| A friendly looking fella we found by the side of the road |
Sometime during the night somebody had turned the heater off
and turned the fan on full blast again. By the morning we were reaching for the
covers as a 30kt south easterly blew up of the southern ocean. Our final
destination wasn’t fixed it was just ‘somewhere along the eastern side of the
Yorke Peninsula’. So we headed off and rounded the tip of the gulf and all of a
sudden I the truck hit a brick wall. We
were now driving directly into this incredible head wind that made it almost
impossible to get over 90km/hr. As I saw the dollar coins falling out of my
exhaust pipe we chugged along visiting all of the small towns that used to be
ports to ship the wheat, wool and copped out of. It is amazing to see these
massive fields of harvested wheat running right to the edge of the sea. It is
also where most of the barley for Australia’s beer is produced so I paid silent
homage to each farm we passed.
In Ardrossan we visited the
heritage museum to have a look at the stump jump plough that revolutionised
agriculture in Australia. While it wasn’t riveting the boys did find some other
interesting things like coal heated irons and stone wind rowers that maybe
helped them to realise how bloody easy they have it!
While De made lunch we
threw the drop net of the jetty and retrieved it after we had filled our
bellies. While we had 2 crabs none were keepers but there were a few others
that had half a bucket full showing the amazing numbers that inhabit the gulf.
We pressed on into the wind and eventually pulled into a recreation camp in
Port Julia for the night. It had some big shrubs around it that would work as a
bit of a wind break for the night!
The boys rode their bikes around
and we tried the drop pot of the short jetty in town with no luck, it was a massive effort to walk in the wind and anything more than 5 minutes in the wind made you feel uncomfortable.
It would be
a perfect place to swim but not today! We had dinner and retreated inside early
for a good nights sleep. The wind was supposed to be the same tomorrow, ye ha!
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