After we left Victor Harbour it was on to who knows where but we put Port Augusta in the gps and headed out. It had been raining each day on an off so it was nice to see consistent sun for a while as the tent was about to be put back into action. After some further travel and low level boredom kicking in, suddenly the crocodile song from Mainly Music sprang into my head just to make the drive more interesting. These areas were new to us having been to the others before on our last trip. Di took to some of the driving and got a drug and alcohol test (another first) an of course she passed. As we got going again we passed through Port Augusta and it had a different feel to it but we continued on to see what was next. I am so glad we continued as we may have missed an absolute jewel of a town called Kimba. As we were driving through we saw these massive silos that had been painted with the most beautiful artwork of a young girl in a field. It would have looked spectacular on its own framed on a wall but this covered a huge area, being some 24.7 metres tall and using 200 litres of paint. The scale of it amazed me as most of the time I find drawing to scale on A4 a struggle of massive proportions let alone this big. Then as we were about to drive on we saw a sign free camping pointing up the street and thought what do we have to lose, the town was already pretty great in my view. The free camping didn’t disappoint with the local sports ground parking used as free camping and that was not the least of it. There is gentleman there with the name of RED and he has a huge beard but an even bigger personality and he loves his town, within a few minutes we felt like part of the family and were invited to the pub and given a run down on everything to do in Kimba. It really is well thought out as there are toilets (flushing) and shower facilities and a gravel base for tents and motorhomes, and even the Galah show, when hundreds of them appear from nowhere yell at each other for a while then dissapear as quickly as they arrived. As we setup for another night in the Hilton we were able to meet a number of new people including some from QLD which is fairly common as we are finding out, and hearing some great recommendations an stories as well. We had learned from our time at the Ettamogah to give the tent a quick spray with the insect spray and a peaceful night is almost guaranteed. Just a quick add today Di overtook a road train (36 metres of it) and fairly giving th Hilux a serve while doing it.
Silo art at Kimba
