We're really enjoying Port Augusta. Its a bit like an oasis in the desert and its been very warm. The caravan park is basic but good and we have nice neighbours again -from Carrum Downs would you believe, small world. Today we visited the Wadlata Outback Centre which was terrific. Its a series of interactive and visual displays about the Flinders Ranges natural history. Amazing to think this place was a rain forest millions of years ago, the FR's is such an ancient land and its fascinating what's happened to it to get it like it is today. Lake Eyre is an incredible piece of nature too. We got to operate one of the old school of the air radios by pedal power and an old telephone exchange and morse code device. We also stood next to a tyre of one of the massive mining trucks which was as tall as two of me! After lunch we headed to the Arid Botanical Gardens and it was great too. Wil brought his bird book along and spotted some Zebra Finchs. Harry found a great resource book on native mammals but forgot his wallet so Wil bought it for him which they were both chuffed about! There isnt much i dont know about native birds and mammals now let me tell you! It was hot walking around the gardens so naturally we had to stop for refreshments in the centre and feast on some bush tucker icecream! Wil had quondong icecream (a bush type peach but very small) and Harry and i had lemon myrtle Yum! On the way back we stopped at the Water Tower lookout which gave us 360degree views over PA and surrounds -a lovely thing to convert a water tower into i thought!
No day is complete without a visit to a skate park so thats how we finished the day!
Tomorrow we're taking a drive to a nearby town called Quorn where we're doing a bush walk which will show us spectacular views of the FR's apparently. Looking forward to it.
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