Today we had a pretty painless 170km drive from Burra to Yunta, a little under halfway of the journey from Burra to Broken Hill, the remainder of which we will finish tomorrow.
The towns we passed through before reaching Yunta were Hallett, Yarcowie, Terowie and Peterborough. These are towns all with strong links to the past, in particular Peterborough which has a large steam engine museum. The houses in the towns are old, some dilapidated, some reborn with a lot of TLC but all conveying that link with the past.
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| 181114 Main street of Peterborough |
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| 181114 The other side of the main street in Peterborough |
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| 181114 The lead atttraction at Peterborough's steam train museum |
Hallet described itself as "The town of wheat, wool and Wilkins". Wilkins stands for Sir Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958) who was born in Hallett Cove and was a famous war correspondent and photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer, climatologist and aviator. We certainly did see plenty of wheat and some very large flocks of sheep, but not Sir Hubert.
Hallett is also the site of one of the biggest wind farms in Australia. There are currently four sites operating, Brown Hill (45 turbines), Hallett Hill (34), Bluff Range (25), North Brown Hill (63). AGL had proposed another 38 turbines at Hallett, but has mothballed these plans due to resistance from the locals because of noise problems. These were too spread out to photograph so we are relying on the old adage, "Seen one wind turbine, seen them all". Have to admit though, they are a sight.
Terowie had quite a display of metal people and things in a field. One never ceases to be amazed by what one sees at these small places. It was right out of the blue as we had not seen it "advertised" anywhere previously.
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| 181114 In a field just out of Terowie |
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| 181114 Anyone for a bike ride? |
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| 181114 Love the bra! |
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| 181114 It is true, all the wee folk here live in this yellow submarine |
The countryside changed as we drove today, initially through wheat fields, then through some scrubby countryside and, near Yunta, some hills started to appear. We came close to an operating harvester, rare, given the area of grain farms we have passed.
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| 181114 Coming out of the wheat country north of Peterborough |
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| 181114 A bit more hilly ahead as we neared Yunta |
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181114 Wheat harvesting. For all the wheat we saw, we did not see
many harvesters working |
Yunta boasts two roadhouses. We were able to find only one powered site, at the Mobil Roadhouse. It was poorly presented and we feel a little cramped between the LPG tank, a fence and the toilet/shower block. We have however learned that beggars can't be choosers.
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| 181114 Our quality powered site at Yunta - the only powered site available |
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