Port Broughton

Dunnies at Fishermans Bay

Fishermans bay.

Wattle in bloom, Port Broughton

Bearded dragon, port Broughton

Moving down the highway to Port Broughton we venture again into Port Pirie and once again impressed by the town.This time it's not just the architectural style of South Australia that dominates these areas but also the friendliness of the locals as well. In Port Augusta, we had to come back next Thursday to have a wheel taken off the caravan and replaced by the spare??? An F1 team can change all four tyres/wheels in less than 3 seconds but no, sorry can't fit you in. ok, Port Pirie Tyrepower, manager stated yeah no problems, do it straight away, and they did. Great. After lunch, thinking about the spare, that was a normal car tyre instead of a light truck tyre, went back to the same tyre place to buy a replacement, sorry, can't do, we don't have that size in stock but can give you address of a place in Adelaide where you can get the same type..Great thanks, off we go feeling even better about Pirie. Call into Port Germein, again lovely stone buildings and also magnificent dry stone walls/fences. Port Germein had the longest wooden jetty in South Australia until a lot of it was blown away in a mini cyclone a few years ago but it is still VERY long. On to Port Broughton where the caravan park has full digital television available. That was important for the forthcoming Bathurst 50th anniversary race.Lots of fishing being done here, mainly boats but some jetty fishing. Blue swimmer crabs come in here at about the same time as the big nobby headed schnapper come in. Neither of which is here yet and according to the locals, not warm enough weather yet. Still, you gotta have a go.
I found this lovely little frilled neck lizard amongst the leaves this morning. After lunch, we went out the 5klms to Fishermans Bay and came upon quite an interesting settlement that have their own dunnies all in a row, in several seperate streets. These residences are tiny little self built fishermans huts built on lease holdings that is proving difficult to manage because of re-sale issues etc. all of the streets here are fish names, Bream, Snook, Garfish Trevalley, whiting and DOLPHIN????
The wattle is starting to flower in trees in the park, confirmation of the change of seasons alright.