Port Augusta

View from park fence across to Flinders Ranges

All the washing is done and we appreciate a good drying wind without the dust. Around the town we explore the waterfront and speak to a couple of different people. One guy with a bottle on the end of a stainless steel wand walks down the ramp beside the water and takes a sample of water. I asked him if he was going to drink that stuff and he assured me not but was taking samples of water for some local authority. The stack at the local power station has not emitted smoke or anything that we have seen since our arrival. Maybe it's closed. As we drove across the bridge into town I notice what looks like a barge, with ribs exposed, lying in the mud beside the waters of the gulf. Gotta be a story there....A nice view across the backwaters of the gulf to the magnificent Flinders Ranges.
We said goodbye to Ivan and Josie (Gladstone Qld.) today and were just as fascinated today with the dispersal of the park as we ever have been. As usual, the park fills up again. At lunchtime, Neil and Phyllis (Ipswich qld) pulled in as we had just finished lunch. I told Phyllis that the pasta was off, our lunch and there was no more.. They joined us at Happy Hour together with John and ineke (Frankston) who are in another Scenic Vega. Good time as the sunset changed once again the colour of the Flinders Ranges in the background.