6:00am wake up, and we helped make breakfast. I was on coffee duty and Alex on pancakes. I slept much better last night, but it was still too hot, and I was afraid to unzip the swag too far in case of creepy crawlies. The moon was still insanely bright, so I had to face away from it until it went down at 3:30am!
We need to leave by 7:30am as today is a driving day, and we have a long way to go. We pack up the campsite and jump on the coach to Hawker, stopping at the local gas station to see if they have a spare tyre for the bus, which they don’t.
We head over to the Jeff Morgan Art gallery. Jeff is a bush artist who produces large semi-photo realistic paintings of the local area. He is very good at capturing Eucalyptus trees and I buy a print of one of his tree paintings. He also has a collection of vintage cars, one of which is an Austin 7!
Onto the bus and we head to Port Augusta. Dan goes shopping while we walk to the ocean front for a quick paddle before lunch.
We arrive at the new campsite after a long drive. It is at the top of the hill overlooking port Lincoln. Not as nice as the previous one and only one combined toilet and shower for the whole site!
We set about making a fire pit for the evening and after a bit of searching Dan finds a huntsman spider in the wood pile, finally we’ve seen one! I’m always surprised at how few spiders we see in Australia, the tails you hear suggest they are everywhere!
We cook dinner and enjoy a few beers before we set up our swags for the night. It is a lot cooler here, so I’m hoping for a better night’s sleep.