Day Ten, Adelaide to Port Augusta

Handy az last night, hadn’t realized the accommodation in North Adelaide was right next to the North Adelaide “High Street” so round the corner for a beer and a curry.

This morning, the Main North Road starts about 100m from the Comfort Inn and we stayed on the same road for the 300 Km’s to Port Augusta.

Fair to say, having ridden this road before, there is nothing to see and you cover the ground quick with the cruise control on 110 kph.  Getting gas somewhere, as an excuse to get off the bike, a local told us that the wee Hamlet of Lochiel was the major tourist attraction in these parts with a wind farm on your left and the famous pink salt lake on your right.  Lochiel is just a wee bit smaller than Tariki.  They suggested we might at least like to slow down and look as we rode past their lake, famous in these parts.  We went one better and stopped and took a pic out of respect, Not pink today, just white. Maybe its pink if the sun sets in the right place?  Reminds me of riding through Death Valley, Nevada.................... sorry Lochiel, a facts a fact!

Stopped for a drink at Port Pirie , following the “City Center” signs.  Optimistic calling it a city but a tidy wee town anyway.

Arriving in Port Augusta, also a tidy looking place with the Comfort Inn across the 2nd bridge in West Port Augusta right by the sea.  Nice spot.

It was a cool 15 degrees heading north out of Adelaide all the way to the first coffee stop.  25 degrees by the time we hit Port Augusta at midday.  Relaxing open ride riding, barely 1 degree off the vertical for the most severe sweepers today.

Much of the same sort of scenery tomorrow heading down to Port Lincoln, but might have a nice sea breeze as on the coast.