Port Augusta Hotels - Reviews and Rates

The following day, the drive to Port Augusta took us through miles more of vineyards and into open farmland. The grass was scorched yellow and the land seemed dusty but the trees were lush and tall - their tentacles had reached down and sucked the earth dry. The Braeburn green and red of the leaves reminded us that we were driving towards autumn...

We aimed to leave Broken Hill by 8am but managed a mere 30 minutes later to depart the caravan park. Unfortunately our bakery tradition was severely interrupted as the first stop we made was at a truckstop which offered no bakery delights not cappuccino's - only self serve coffee from a tin and urn. Better than nothing at that time of the day. T...

Port Augusta is a nice enough little town. I got dropped off at the bus station and was finally done with that little, red station wagon. I was happy to be done with that awkward situation and to have made it through the deadly Outback alive. Speaking of how deadly Australia is, the news is great over here. If it isn't a story about backpackers ...

Ahhh Port Augusta, such a decidedly odd place that makes you slightly uneasy. We opted to camp a little out of the main town, and followed a sign to a "Historic Water Tower", which turned out to be one of many underwhelming monuments signposted from the highway. Its lack of glory did have an upside in this scenario however, meaning we could camp...

Première Etape, Port augusta à ce stade vous pouvez encore faire demi-tour, mais si vous êtes toujours décidé à faire des milliers de km au milieu du désert, deux possibilités s'offrent à vous: 2 jours de voiture vers le Nord pour rejoindre le Red Centre (en vous disant qu'il faudra absolument revenir ou repartir vers un destination encore plus ...

We love small town Australia. Once you get off the beaten track you encounter towns which are the centre for all the farms (stations) in the area. We;ve been on Heritage town trails - the doctors house, the scout hut, the town hall, the bakery, the primary school. (circa 1930's) We also love the coffee shops, today, we drank our coffee on a sett...

So the end of the Nullabor had arrived and by early afternoon we were determined to make some headway towards Uluru a mere 1500 kilometres away. There's only one sealed road to Uluru and that heads north from Port Augusta through a place called Coober Pedy, so it wasn't to difficult to plan the route. By early evening we made it to an overnight ...

Pulling into Port Augusta with the light fading we struggled to find a hotel. The first, a Pokie bar, was full - luckily. These pubs, come hotels, come gambling halls are not the most inviting of venues. They're like a North London Wetherspoons, William Hill and a dodgy B&B rolled into one. I prefer sleeping in the car. The next stop wasn't quit...