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May 2011

Adelaide to Port Lincoln

	This is Port Pirie, a very picturesque shot of the harbour but in the back ground is Australia's largest lead smelter.
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Whyalla Smelter, said to be the birth place of the Australian Steel industry, like all iron ore towns everything around is red. We done a tour of the steel works and it was quiet interesting. Especially when the steel comes out of the furnace in a piece 3 meters long and about 300mm x 400 mm and weighs 27 tonne it then goes through a series of rollers and ends up 90 meters long.
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	The pub at Arno Bay, a beautiful old building
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This is one of the 68 ships that where built in Whyalla at the shipyards before they where closed in the 80's
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It was good to finally leave Adelaide neither of us where happy at the park we where staying in. Out of the blue 2 weeks before we planned to leave I got a message from some very good friends Terry & Jeannie. They where hiring a motorhome out of Adelaide and heading to Darwin so we spent a couple of days with them which was great and we cant wait until they come back to Adelaide via Ceduna.
The change in scenery has been dramatic. From the Adelaide Hills, Flinders Ranges then back down to some very rugged coast again.
We stopped for a couple of days just north of Whyalla called Point Lowly, we only managed to get the boat in the water once and I yes me caught a nice small snapper 40cm, to me it was a nice fish but compared to what the group of blokes camped across from us caught it was almost embarrassing, between them they caught about a dozen fish at 10 to 12 kilos, very nice, will be going back there for shore.
CYAS
Wayne & Bev

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