South Through the Gawler Ranges

Our travel from Coober Pedy to the Great Australian Bight would take us through the Gawler Ranges.  The first few hours to Glendambo was on the Stuart Highway.  We had lunch at the Glendambo Roadhouse, then turned onto the unsealed road to Kingooya, about 45km west.  We called into the pub for a drink and to inquire about the road conditions on our southwards journey.  An added bonus was a fuel top up at $1.60/litre - the cheapest fuel since we left Canberra in August.

The road south alongside the Lake Gairdener National Park was not too bad.  It was corrugated and a bit rough in patches so we kept our speed down.  Our reverie was broken by the tyre pressure monitoring system alarm - a flat tyre!  We had started looking for a campsite after we left Kingooya and found a great site not long after we had changed to our spare wheel.  There weren't many campsites and none were marked in Camps7.

The next day we continued south through the rolling hills of the Gawler Ranges and past many salt lakes.  In places we were driving on the lake bed.

Before long we crossed the Eyre Highway, the road from Adelaide to Perth, and soon arrived in Streaky Bay, a small town on the eastern side of the Great Australian Bight.  We'll be here for a week and will be exploring the northern Eyre Peninsula while we're here.