Iron Knob

Iron Nob was the first open cut mine of BHP and was closed in 1990's. Photos of open cut mine, mullock heaps, digger. The town now has only 200 residents, surviving on tourists. There is also an excellent blue light school adventure camp.

Arid Land Botanical Gardens, Port Augusta

The Arid Land Botanical Gardens are large with three main walking tracks through the bush, a number of lookouts and bird hides. There are drought tolerant display gardens behind the information centre and the remainder of the garden is maintained in its natural form.

Port Augusta

Port Augusta bridges over Spencer Gulf. The old bridge is now solely for pedestrians and pushbikes.

Salt Lake beside the Pacific Highway, Port Augusta

Port Augusta

Port Augusta bridges over Spencer Gulf. The old bridge is now solely for pedestrians and pushbikes. Salt Lake photo taken on edge of Pacific Highway Port Augusta

Rapid Bay Deep Creek Consv Park & Goolwa

Doreen and Peter (friends we met during our 2007 outback trip) drove us to see some of their favourite places along the beautiful coastline of South Eastern South Australia. We spent the whole day sightseeing, had a picnic lunch before passing through Victor Harbour to the Murray River at Goolwa before returning to Moana at nightfall.

Rapid Bay has recently acquired a new pier to replace what is left of the original pier.

Deep Creek Conservation Park can only be accessed on foot or by 4 wheel drive vehicles to a carpark overlooking the southern ocean. The surrounding hills look like they have well maintained lawns running down to the waters edge. The beautiful isolated white sandy beach is only accessible by walking along the Heysen trail down to the shoreline.

There was plenty of birdlife around the dam wall separating the River Murray from the salt water at Goolwa.

Iron Knob

Iron Knob was the first BHP opencut mine.

The photos show the open cut mine

A loader used in the mine

Spencer Gulf from the Arid Botanical Gardens, Port Augusta

The Arid Land Botanical Gardens are large with three main walking tracks through the bush, a number of lookouts and bird hides. There are drought tolerant display gardens behind the information centre and the remainder of the garden is maintained in its natural form. These are the cliffs Matthew Flinders saw when he sailed into Spencer Gulf.

This Zebra Finch in one of three who entertained us in the gardens.

Alligator Gorge, Port Augusta

We spent a day at Alligator Gorge, Mt Remarkable

A few images taken on our walks to Narrow Gorge and a formation called The Steps.

Look at the sugar gum growing horizontally from the sheer rock face.

Alligator Gorge, Port Augusta

We spent a day at Alligator Gorge, Mt Remarkable

A few images taken

What's happened to us?

Car problems resulted in us returning to Melbourne for repairs which took over 4 weeks and after setting out again the automatic transmission failed.

As a result we are now driving around Port Augusta in a hire vehicle courtesy of the RACV.

We have been taking day trips from here, riding our bikes around the Port Augusta bike paths and enjoying a peaceful time reading and relaxing.

Photos taken during our visit to Port Augusta's wonderful Arid Botanical Gardens