Day 20 - Monday 6th February

We weren't sure what we would do today, depending on the weather when we woke up. Thankfully, the wind had died down overnight, so decided to go west rather than south, (as we had intended originally) as the weather looked a bit better to the west. We headed north west to the small settlement of Iron Knob. The roads out here are very straight, some are up to 30kms straight ahead. This is as we were approaching Iron Knob.






Iron Knob was the birth place of the Australian steel industry. It was here that the first iron ore deposits were discovered. Mining of iron ore ended in1998, however more recently they have re-opened the mine on a much smaller scale.
We did a tour of the area where we could view an open cut mine.





From here we set off to Kimba - which is geographically half way across Australia, between Sydney and Perth, as the crow flies.




One of Australia's "big things" is the 8 meter tall Big Galah situated next to the Eyre Highway at Kimba. These galahs can often be seen by the hundreds, eating seeds on the ground.




Another unusual sculpture is located at the lookout which has 360* views of the area. They represent John Edward Eyre and his Aboriginal tracker- Wylie. These were the first men to cross southern Australia from east to west.



On the way to the lookout is the golf course - anyone for a round or two?
(or square)










This is the 5th green (or is that black).



Murals of days gone by are very popular in many of the towns we have visited.







Wheat has been grown in this region since 1908, and today this is one of South Australia's major grain belts.






We headed back to the lookout at sunset hoping for the perfect sunset it but wasn't as good as hoped.









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Location:Kimba, SA