Saturday 23 February 2013

This is the old Pier Hotel at Port Germaine.  We spent a night here in the caravan park by the sea. You should have seen the sea weed on the beach.  It was so thick and went for quite a distance along the front of the beach. Enjoyed this spot. Even had tea in the only operating Hotel there.  The publican even sang out "Goodbye Visitors" as we walked out of the Hotel.  This old Pier Hotel is now privately owned. They have signs up in the windows not to peer in and when you do they shout out. It has a very long jetty. There is a large tin shed with the words "Welcome to Port Germaine". Backpackers spent the night here in the shed.  We headed to Port Pirie where we refueled.  Then it was on to Port Broughton.  Along the way saw round hay bales, wheat growing and white, black, and dark brown alpacas  Passed another wind farm which produces electricity.  Saw more ruins but they had no roof.  Spotted a small tractor on a mail box.  A house on the right had five chimneys.  Sheep graze here.  Port Broughton as a butcher shop, newsagent, hotel and Takeaway shops.  It looks like Victor Harbour with its tall Pine Trees and has a jetty too!  It has a fair size van park and beach front cottages.An IGA supermarket and RSL, Thrifty Link, Chemist, Bakery, Dock of the Bay Restaurant and a boat ramp.  Next place we came across was Kadina.  Here wheat grows by the sea.  It looks like a salt pan.  In the paddocks we see round hay bales.  Passed Kamula Stud for Horses.  It has old houses that have been restored.  Cooked a hot lunch by the shade of a tree near the road. Here was Wombat Hotel, Kadina Hotel, The Taste of Italy, an old Catholic Church, The Country Times Newspaper, An Apex Club, Royal Exchange Dining Room, a Fair Dinkum Cafe, Bridgestone Tyres and even a coin operated "Dog Wash".  To receive good television reception most of the local houses have very high antennaes.

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