Woomera

Set off after the tour to push our way through the rain south. All of 11 degrees on the road, didn’t matter what attractions there were you couldn’t see more than 20 m in any direction. This and the poky scrub reminded me of driving in Scotland.. Got to the shores of Lake Hart which is surprisingly immense, the fog lifted and there was a 2 degree rise in temp but the landscape flattened out to grasses in greens from lime to almost black with occasional red dabs but nothing above 30cm. The dog fence was the tallest thing for as far as the eye could see. Called into Woomera after an extended wait for the freight train to go through – they are just babies at home. These even have the shipping containers stacked double. Woomera is a surprisingly large community that proved to be a little boy’s delight with literally paddocks of rockets’, missiles, launchers, planes, guidance systems and so on, but it is the only town that would advertise it has a dentist/vet – that is literally how it was sign posted on their directory. Being Sunday all the inside exhibits were closed so inspected what we could before heading south again hoping but not managing to drive out of the rain.