Adelaide to Port Pirie

23/3/2011
Adelaide to Port Pirie was a beautiful drive. The Land that is not being used or farmed in Australia is astounding. The country side on this leg of our trip around Australia is beautiful countryside. The road great flat and long.
It has just started to rain ever so light. In Port Pirie another BHP town of mining. Grain silos and 250mtr smock stacks all over the city.
Water front have huge vessels BHP and private. BHP stands for Broken Hill Proprietary just in case you are wondering. Mined lead in 1889.
BHP has largest lead zinc smelter in the world. Wheat and Barley are also exported from here in the Spencer Gulf.

This is the old bank with it's Metal doors.

Big Blade Wind Mill Power Blades.

Passing through Snowtown where the bodies were found in the Bank Vault.  Not the best looking bank but it is a baron town as well. Most interesting land mark is the Energy Australia's Big Blade. The storey go's   that when tourists come to town they are looking for a big knife blade not part of the energy Australia  windmills.

Town so sad nothing open except one pub and one antique shop where John asked where the Bank was.

Our yellow melons have shown their head again growing wild in the paddocks.

Spectacular country side rolling hills and just so healthy. Farming visible. Photo stop pink Lake. It is raining so not to sure if you can see the pink. The sand so white and the lake changes colour when the weather changes. Bumbunga Lake.

Salt Lake that changes colour when the weather changes.

Pink Hue

There are 100 wind mills and they are extending them to 200. You don't see any wooden telegraph poles they are all metal and cement.
Just passed a sign on the roadside which read, MUM & DAD SLOW DOWN. Now we know it isn't from our children as they know we don't go fast.
Heading for Port Lincoln. Catch up with you all then . Love Sandy and John xxx