Day 22 - 4th May
Wallaroo to Port Pirie
Distance Traveled – 154.3 km
Woke up at 4.50 am to my disgust and rolled back over and managed to fall
asleep again after a bit and finally awoke at 7 am. Stayed in bed and listened
to music for a while before getting up and packing away etc. Finally left camp
at about 9.30 am. Went into town to look through a few shops that were closed
yesterday and left about 10.45 am, travelling to Kadina and then on to Port Pirie.
It was a very windy day with lots of dust coming off the empty paddocks as
I drove through some of the farming country. I could feel the car getting
buffeted around as the wind blew across the road. Eventually got to Port Pirie
having seen nothing of interest to photograph. Went to the info centre and
found a caravan park to stay at. I decided it was time I had a shower and
thought using a BBQ rather than my camp stove may be a novel thing to do.
Booked in and went and had a shower (about the only good thing this place
has to offer). I hooked up the Engel to the power at the site for a while and
then went to town to look at what was around. Came back early evening after
taking some photos of the sunset and then realised the mistake of choosing this
place. Had a chop and sausages out for tea but both BBQ's at the park don't work,
which the manager said she should of told me when I booked in when I went to
see her about it, so it was back to using the camp stove. There are no other
facilities (like a sink) in the camp kitchen so washing the dishes was not
possible. I then decided to sit and write my blog using the rocky, wooden table
in the camp kitchen because I could hook the computer up to the power points in
there as the computer battery was nearly flat but alas neither of the power
points in the camp kitchen worked either so that idea went out of the window as
well.
It is still very windy and there is a possibility of
rain tonight or tomorrow morning so I might make the camp kitchen useful for
something and set the tent up under cover to try and keep it dry. Tomorrow will
be spent driving towards Port Germain and then on towards the Flinders Ranges. 
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