Day 3 – Port Augusta to Ceduna

Well what a day, so much to tell so hold onto your hats.

As we left Port Augusta Kaz made a comment that went something like this “today will be an easy drive as all we have to do is turn right and follow A1 highway” so off we go to Ceduna……

We start following A1 and reach Whyalla which is on the coast line. We decided earlier that we would have morning tea in Kimba which was approx 2hrs out of Port Augusta. Approx 40kms out of Whyalla I checked the map on my phone and realised we were heading in the wrong direction. We had noticed a sign that said Kimba approx 20km back towards Whyalla, so Kaz did a u-turn. There was a debate on whether the driver or navigator missed the turn to Kimba on the A1…. As the navigator was me I don’t remember seeing Ceduna turn off but I took the blame.

So head down the road towards Kimba and now feel comfortable that we are heading in the right direction. Kaz passed a sign that said Kimba and apparently asked me (the navigator) if we should turn there, as I was looking at stuff I responded no…. this minute I still say I don’t recall hearing Kaz ask the question. So as I look at the map, I realise we are heading in the wrong direction again, so we do another u-turn and turn at the road I said no too. By now we are laughing but when Kaz see’s the dirt road we are about to drive on she says “FARK”…… the road was actually not to bad, but Kaz keeps asking how long to go..? Kaz has realised that cars a made for dirt roads as she was concerned that we may get a flat tyre, but was even more concerned what would we do if we get to flat tyres….. God give me strength this caused Shaz and I to laugh for a little while.

As we are driving, we start talking about kangaroos and I said “we shouldn’t hit a kangaroo in the day as you should see them coming” Kaz also says we haven’t seen any at all and then from the bushes a Kangaroo jumps in front of the car, it was unbelievable….. all we could see was an endless dirt road. From our experience note to others keep an eye on the map and don’t be fooled by following A1 as you might have to do a u-turn……..

We finally get back to A1 and reach Kimba for morning tea, we were looking for the bakery but couldn’t find it as the town was huge so we found a little cafe which was still very nice. On the way out of town we found the big Gallah and the bloody bakery was right next to it.

After about 4.5hrs we reached Ceduna and our comfortable accomodation. We had a bite to eat and headed to the golf course to start the Nullarbor Golf Links course. We have 2 holes to play here. On arrival there is only 1 car in the car park and noticed the course was a little dry. We all hit off and thought it wasn’t to bad until we hit the greens, sorry sand scrapes, they are horrible. We had fun and we are looking forward to the rest of the holes.

We had a walk along the water and dinner in a place on the water, Kaz was in her element taking photos of the sunset. Until tomorrow chow bang bye.