Ceduna

We were excited to get from the Flinders Hwy back to Highway 1 (cue the Waifs' song for Lexie and I...) and had a lovely 2 night ‘rest’ in a caravan park in Ceduna. Our big rig wouldn’t fit at the one everyone at Haslam recommended, which was a good thing, as we ended up at a wonderful one a little bit out of town at Shelley Beach. We were right in the sand dunes, and able to walk up and over them to the beach - which did have lots of shells on it. 

We didn’t do much at Ceduna. Dunc argued with Telstra. Our issue is STILL ongoing and he has now raised a TIO dispute. He rings, gets put on hold for an hour, put through to someone who can’t help, then the next level of support ring back a day later when we are out of range. Its insane. It would be fine if we were in a house or office all day, happy to be at their beck and call. It was funny hearing one guy list all the towers we had tried to access them from. He thought it was a tower issue until he realized we had used towers from Adelaide to Ceduna with the same damn problem. Really we will have traversed half the bloody country before they get it sorted.

So Dunc did that and the kids played in the shells and rode hire quad bikes and watched telly since we had both power AND reception - they don’t take either for granted anymore! I did the washing. LOL. I also walked the beach a few times.

We DID go to the Bureau of Meteorology station and have a tour. We were hoping to see a weather balloon go up, but the afternoon balloons are only let off when the weather gets nasty and that day was just a normal old boring day. We did have a tour of the facility and the meteorologist showed us all the equipment. Dunc and I were fascinated, the kids not so much. It was a little over their heads. We did all enjoy seeing the piece of equipment which measures sunlight though. It’s a crystal ball which focuses sunlight onto a piece of card. Very impressive.