Port Augusta
It's always a more relaxing morning when we don't have to move on. However, it dawned pretty cool and has been raining a bit overnight. We're starting to get a bit worried as some of the roads we are planning to travel on to get to Birdsville have closed because of the rain. There's still another week until we get close enough to make those decisions but according to the Bureau of Meteorology, there's more rain forecast over the next week. We have enough time to sit and wait but our vision of warm sunshine, red dust and wide flat dirt roads is starting to look a little unrealisitic!Today we had planned to spend at the Wadlata Outback Centre. We've never been on any of our visits here but Lisa and family enjoyed it two years ago, and Neill and Jude were keen to see it after 20 years since their last visit. So we started the day there with morning tea in their cafe - very hot coffees which was ironc given the recent media about how hot drinks can lead to oesophaegal cancer! The centre was very good, with lots of stories about the Aboriginal Dreamtime, white settlement, the coming of the rail and then the mining and tourism booms. There was lots of tactile and audible exhibitions so Greg enjoyed it very much too.
We spent so much time there we had to take a break for lunch back in the cafe - kangaroo burgers! We finished up mid afternoon, then headed to the supermarket to stock up for the next while before a couple of hours of housekeeping and rest.
Tonight we caught up with Greg's cousin Belinda and her husband Miles. We see them everytime we come to Port Augusta and tonight we shared a really enjoyable meal at the local pub. We had lots of laughs, the two school teachers swapped stories, Miles tried to spook us with his local knowledge of the Track in the wet until eventually we were the last ones left in the pub! It was a great night.
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