Ceduna 8 - 11 February 2007

Headed down the road to fill up Jimmy and caught up with the Swiss couple we met last night! They are on a 4 year visa and intend to wander around Oz with their lovable dog that they could not leave behind! We would have thought he was a good old Ozzie dog chasing sticks, not a Swiss tourist!
Stopped for the night just out of Ceduna to eat ALL our remaining fruit and vegetables, as we have to go through the Fruit Fly Inspection tomorrow! Start cooking Heather! It’s tricky to estimate, as you can’t get any fruit, etc on the Nullarbor. We did well! Low and behold, it’s very windy again, but no clouds!
Fruit fly Inspection thorough and finally in Ceduna at IGA buying all our fruit and veg again! Quite good range of fruit etc due to the great business generated by the man throwing it all out as you enter! It’s a bit crazy as it all comes from the same source! Asia! Australian farmers are gong out of business anyway!
Camped in a caravan park right on the water and watched 2 lovely sunsets over the water from the motorhome. Unusually, this park is right in town. Ceduna is a small town (3000) that feels healthy and coming along fine. It is busy with wheat and gypsum exporting from a small port and lots of traffic crossing the Nullarbor! The days have been bright and sunny, very windy but not hot (10-27). It is supposed to be 40 on Sunday! We keep ducking and weaving, missing the hot weather by chance! The Aboriginal population seems more settled in this town without obvious drunkenness and disruption. The Indigenous Art Gallery was well run by local Aboriginals with aspirations for the future. It may be a hidden mess though.
We spent Sunday quietly reading and doing some late spring cleaning. Cleaned the windows and gauze after the Nullarbor sin readiness for them to get dirty again as soon as possible!
Monday all the shops opened and we had a look at some op shops (where Heather got some bargains) as well as the local folk museum. This proved to be a great museum that had a number of old buildings at the rear and an amazing collection of old tractors, buggies and farm machinery. Perhaps the most unusual find was a Sunshine Harvester in original condition.