Waikerie & Life Style Village with an overnight at Burra
Waikerie is a smallish but nice town and our reason for a visit was due to an advert re Retirement villages that cater for Motor homes.The homes are impressive BUT are also on a popular camp-site & after a showing around and weighing up the pros n cons we decided it is NOT the place for us We have other places to look at in Adelaide the rationale of living in this area is due to it being central to Eastern/Western states We also stopped at Burra where apparently scenes from Breaker Morant were filmed (twas the 30th anniversary of the film recently Bryan Brown N Jack Thompson (Stars of the movie)were invited to the celebrations but refused because they wanted appearance money ! the town has a lovely old pub & we used the footbridge from the camp-site to get there Tomorrow we head off to LOXTON ( how unique a LUXTON in LOXTON good title for a movie!!) and the place sounds interesting
Forgot all about this Fella !!
he came to say gudbye as we packed up at Waikerie
Spot the eyes !!!!
Terowie the Ghost Town in SA
This is a sad place lots of buildings in disrepair but nevertheless heritage listed.There NO commodities here ( pub/garage/shops/working church) but people do live around the area !! Im not a religious person but it is still sad to see a Church going to ruin.Maybe some where down the track the place will be resurrected Twas an eerie experience driving down the main empty street tho Would like to have travelled back in time when this place was at its prime We are moving closer ro Port Pirie & our final destination of Adelaide The bus will be stored a Annies brothers from Nov 15 when we fly to Perth for a few days & then on to UK via stop over in Dubai The blog will still be maintained but probably not daily. Hopefully the Xmas & New Year entries will be worth reading PLUS my brother & his wife having a HUGE party to celebrate their 45 th wed anniv in Feb 2011 & I will no doubt bore this blog with copious amounts of family photos !!!
The Terowie Tin Men of SA
This is an amazing site (sight) !! just driving along in the middle of nearly nowhere when a field full of tin men suddenly appeared !!! Must have taken lots of hard work making and installing this lot.Further down the road is the ghostly town ( heritage listed) an will describe a litttle bit more in my next blog ( with pictures of course)
Getting a Ghost Writer ( BRIAN )
This is my new “Ghost Writer” who will be filling in for a few days while I go down to the pub Hope he does OK
he will be doing next blog
Peterborough & Trains & Blacksmiths
This town is a fascinating look at times gone by when around 100 trains a day used to go thru (now around eight) The museum is a must see and hands on exhibits include trains & carriages of days long gone.In the complex is a HUGE circular roundabout and could turn a dozen trains on track very easily !! I found out where the local (retired) Blacksmith lived and gave him a visit.Hes an expat from Newcastle UK ( Geordie Colin ) and a very talented man He made HUGE signposts of metal model trains ( Photographed) & lots of wrought iron work he had hand made( I related to all of his chat because of my own training as a wrought iron blacksmith) The stay was very pleasant ( I was also informed at this Town that my Australian pension had been approved & back dated to August 1 !!) The next Blog will give details of our visit to a “Ghost Town”
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Blacksmith Shop in Melrose
this was a quaint little town ( SA seems to have a lot of them) and the Blacksmith Shop took me back to my youth The pictures taken here are reminiscent of my apprentice days at Marton Forge in Blackpool (owner George has just retired & left the Forge exactly as it was) we are currently looking around Orooroo in SA the pub is very friendly & the Campsite owner is a lovely loke & runs a very clean & cheap site.We were looking at property here and the VERY top of the range is a Mansion valued at $340 K !! and the cheapest around $60 grand!! Interested? ava look http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-orroroo-106874108 We saw RAIN for the first time in ages here Very Refreshing We asked in the pub about the Golf Course (and seriously) we were told the grass was too long because the sheep havent been let loose on it yet !!!
On our way to Orroroo South Australia
You havr to hand it to Australians they come up with weird & wonderful names !! We have left Wilmington after a lovely time,A night we were fortunate enough to spot a Possum.Annie fed it pieces of apple & the creature had NO fear of us The town is old but lovely Although I went into overkill on my last blog ( cant help it I LOVE puppets !!) I’ll keep this entry short
Watch me play Didgeridoo
Geoffs Life After Work ! 