First stop, a delicious lunch cooked for us by Alistair on the family farm at Wedderburn, no wonder his parents Stafford and Joy look so happy if they eat like that every day. A mini tour of the farm followed, which looked splendid after recent rains. Our route took us through Nhill (why did they put an 'h' in there ?) Bordertown, Pinaroo, Loxton, took the Punt at Waikere, Burra, Port Augusta, Woomera, Coober Pedy, Marla, Kulgara, Stewarts Well and then on to Alice Springs. The highlights of the trip so far have been a bush walk in the Big Desert national park, and our third visit to the Australian Arid Garden at Port Augusta. On both occasions David was riveted by the uninterrupted description of the Flora which was granted him. His excitement on this occasion was surprisingly surpassed however by a visit to the missile exhibition at Woomera. David enthused over all those missiles, and planes and rockets and helicopters, not forgetting the wonderful 50's and 60's architecture. " I could live here" he said, and meant it. The hybrid took its first timid steps off the bitumen on its way to our inspection of a cluster of meteorite craters just north of Erlunda.
The Stuart highway is very, very long but the landscape varied. We knew we were in the outback when a dingo wandered across the road in front of us.
A few statistics; Road trains are a maximum of 53.5 metres. We have driven 2466 kms so far. The fuel consumption of the hybrid has rocketed to 6.2 l/100 kms, well in excess of its home average.
Favourite menu item so far - Roadkill du jour - at Pimba.
Favourite graffitti so far(Cecile) - Vulgarity is the last resort of the inarticulate motherfucker
(David) - Abstinance makes the Church grow fondlers
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