The pictures in this post start with a few of the interestng signs we encountered during the day. The first of the signs is self explanatory, it just struck us as pretty typical Australian - anything with beer in it.

I saw the second sign out of the corner of my eye as we were flashing down the highway, and I had to back-track to get the photo. The thing that really got me about this sign is that the house is in the middle of no-where. The place has a town name but there are really only two old farm complexes across the road from each other. I cannot imagine that this place gets many visitors at all, certainly not enough to have to warn them away.

The third sign was in the town of Craddock and the photo is of an interesting paragraph in a much larger sign. The sign starts with population information (following is a quote). "The small town of Cradock (population 13; five permanent residents and eight 'transient')...". I liked this sign because it summed up the experience of many pioneers in Northern South Australia who had asperation to make their fortune growing grain.

Photos 4 and 5 are of last night camping spot, it was pretty enough to deserve recording.

As you may be able to deduce from photo 6, it was very windy for most of the day and the wind caused very large clouds of dust.

Our first stop of the day was the small town of Terowie, we dropped into this town because we had been told by someone a few days ago that it was interesting; well it was, even though today its population is only 150. In the late 1800s the railway line between Adelaide and Darwin consisted of two different track gauges (width) and so all cargo had to be transfered between railcars at the spot where the track width changed and you guessed it that was Terowie. The track was not standardized until 1970.

During the Second World War Terowie was a significant military supply base with garrisons of both Australian and US troops. General MacArthur passed through Terowie on his way to Melbourne as the final leg of his escape from the Philippines and it was in Terowie, to a small group of journalists that he first gave his famous "I will return" speech. He gave that same speech again when he arrived in Melbourne.

The guy on the bicycle is a resident of Terowie, he moved to the town in order to buy the local Baptist Church building which he is turning into his house.

The theater converted to a coffee house was in the town of Peterborough.

The kangaroos made from corrigated iron were on the entrance to the town of Orrorroo.