Travelway Motel Port Pirie
149 Gertrude Street Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia
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Christmas 2011
Merry Christmas to everyone. Thankyou for your messages and interest. We do hope your Christmas has been wonderful.
It has certainly been a very different one for us. We didn't have the baked ham for lunch or even sit under a gum tree - went for a drive to Quorn & ate our sandwiches under the best shade we could find - an old pepper tree!!! Very warm up ...
Day NINETY ONE
... to get as close to Adelaide as possible so we were thinking about Port Augusta or Port Pirie. We stopped into a couple of the small towns on the east side of the Eyre Peninsula and they looked great for potential fishing but the weather is still windy with regular showers of rain so it wasn’t encouraging. We drove into Cowell for lunch and were hoping to catch a ferry across to the York Peninsula as ...
The beautiful Yorke Peninsula
... Lighthouse day and he was chatting to others around the world at other lighthouses. Ron, who also used to be a bit of a ham radio fanatic, was in his element! We decided to stay - it was Paradise. We absolutely loved this place.
We scrambled down to the beach and spent the afternoon there. Then walked down to the rocks on the other side and saw some red-billed oyster catchers, for the first time ever! It was a really magic place. ...
A great time with friends
... Ceduna, Streaky Bay or Smokey Bay, stay tuned and you will find out as soon as we make up our mind)
Now, the real advantage of travel ling in a big van (Bruce and Di have a 22 foot) is you get to have a full stove, oven and fridge along with lots of other good stuff..... Whereas, the love capsule has a small microwave and small fridge...... so when Di said she had a baked dinner on for us we melted...... then came a yummy desert.... and they even had ice cream...ohhhh ...
Mildura to Whyalla
... model train – the obsession restarteth! Ron went out to dinner with Mitchell and the staff at Traveland, unfortunately Sam was unwell and he and Fitz stayed in to watch Maggies wallop Port (no good outcome available there unless both can lose) – but did get the updates re the Dons squeaking over the Swans by 1 pt – woohoo!
Whyalla – Coober Pedy : the longest drive on the trip – 613km – great; loaded up on DVDs, iPods – and ...


