{"id":25055,"date":"2011-03-23T05:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T09:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25055\/great-australia-road-trip-page-8\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"great-australia-road-trip-page-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25055\/great-australia-road-trip-page-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australia Road Trip \u2013 Page Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 9 – Friday – September 24, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather:\u00a0 Cloudy, Breezy & Chilly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Destination:\u00a0 Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Odometer Reading:\u00a0 97866<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 2523 kilometers (1567 miles)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Tailem Bend – $1.29.9 liter, 58.52 liters, $76.02<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Route Taken:\u00a0 Kingston SE to Meningie to Tailem Bend to Mt. Barker to Adelaide to Snowtown to Port Pirie<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:\u00a0 It’s another gray morning in the Land Down Under.\u00a0 My camera is still being sensitive to the cold so now I have to warm it up every morning.\u00a0 I had to make sure it was warm enough this morning so that on the way out of town we could stop so I could get a photo of the Big Lobster.\u00a0 That\u2019s two big icons down.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The roads have straightened out a bit, so we\u2019re making better time, but the scenery has become a little boring.\u00a0 There\u2019s not much to see but flat green fields with a house every once in a while.\u00a0 Luckily we came to the area around The Coorong and Lake Albert and it gave us something a little different to look at.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We drove through Adelaide today and we\u2019re finding that cities in Australia are really no different than cities in the States.\u00a0 Just like the States, the cities give road trippers bumper-to-bumper traffic, road construction, and idiot me-first drivers.\u00a0 I know The Beast is big and I wouldn\u2019t want to get stuck behind it either, but I guess even here some people don\u2019t understand how much this thing weighs.\u00a0 It can\u2019t stop on a ten cent piece.\u00a0 Or, even a fifty cent piece.\u00a0 I found myself holding my breath and hitting my imaginary co-pilot brake a few times.\u00a0 Not that it does anything.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We decided to stop for the night in Port Pirie and we’re almost a day ahead of schedule.\u00a0 I’m sure we won’t be able to keep it, but it\u2019s nice to know we have a little bit of a cushion at this point.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s getting a bit warmer now that we\u2019re heading north and it was a lovely afternoon.\u00a0 Rather than sit in The Beast, we sat outside for a bit and enjoyed the end of the day.\u00a0 The birds came around to check us out and the view from the back of our camp spot wasn\u2019t too bad either.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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After dinner we took a walk through the city park that is right next to the campground.\u00a0 We watched some kids in the skate park for a while and then walked over to the beach area.\u00a0 We walked out to the end of the fishing dock and watched the tide come in.\u00a0 I love doing that.\u00a0 It\u2019s so creepy when it\u2019s dark.\u00a0 On the way back to camp, we sat on a park bench and watched Friday night in Port Pirie play out for a bit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The park had only one way for traffic to enter the parking area.\u00a0 Cars would drive in, go to the end of the parking area, make a u-turn, and then drive back out.\u00a0 At first we thought it was just somebody made a wrong turn or was just a bit lost like we get every once in a while.\u00a0 Then the same cars started coming in, driving through, and driving out again.\u00a0 None of them ever stopped, none of them ever acknowledge the others in passing, and they didn\u2019t act like they were looking for anyone.\u00a0 They just drove in and then drove out.\u00a0 A few minutes later they would be back and do it again.\u00a0 It was very comical to watch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Stops:\u00a0 There was nothing much to stop for today except stretches and diesel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Stayed:\u00a0 We stayed at the Port Pirie Beach Caravan Park with a spot next to the Port Pirie River.\u00a0 The rate was $28.00 and it was a very well kept park.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Ate:\u00a0 We stayed in The Beast and finished off the tortellini soup with the cheese and crackers again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 9 – Friday – September 24, 2010 Weather:\u00a0 Cloudy, Breezy & Chilly Destination:\u00a0 Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia Odometer Reading:\u00a0 97866 Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 2523 kilometers (1567 miles) Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Tailem Bend – $1.29.9 liter, 58.52 liters, $76.02 Route Taken:\u00a0 Kingston SE to Meningie to Tailem Bend to Mt. Barker to Adelaide to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,42,25],"tags":[651,2432,2727,2431,2704,398],"class_list":["post-25055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-other","category-photography","category-world","tag-australia","tag-motorhome","tag-port-pirie","tag-road-trip","tag-scenery","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116518,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions\/116518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}