So, today travel to Port Augusta. We thought we would be back in some sort of civisation as there were a few roads on the map today. Well  we were wrong Yes there were towns about every couple of hundred km's but really they were very small towns, often just one shop and that was the petrol garage! Most would be 500 or so people only. we did though find ourselves in the Wheat belt with huge wheat storage areas and trucks every where.  Another big day of driving, yes all of us are getting a bit sick of the driving, and we arrived at Port Augusta after also passing some more iron mining. Funny thing was we passed a town (mine) called Iron Knob, and they had mined away half the hill (which I am guessing was where the name Iron Knob came from). I had to wonder what it will be called in 20 years time when the hill and iron is gone ... maybe "No Iron Knob"???

Checked in a ducked into town to get some milk and bread and found the local Santa Parade was on. So stayed and enjoyed the local floats some lollies and of course Santa! I had not seen a Santa Parade since I was a small child, and none of the kids had seen it but it seems to be a common thing here is SA. Shame we no longer seem to have this sort of thing in NSW or Maitland.