Archive for July, 2007

Whyalla - Signwriting Capital of the World?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Day 5 - Tuesday 17th July - 763 Km - Port Lincoln to Adelaide
Whyalla, second largest city in SA, has an amazing collection of signage and fonts on shops and pubs. I couldn’t work out if they were conserved for heritage reasons or had just never been repainted.
A small sample:

Spencer Hotel - a [...]

Skype Test in Arno Bay

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Day 5 - Tuesday 17th July - 763 Km - Port Lincoln to Adelaide
Every 2nd Tuesday, at 9am WA time, I have a Skype call with Atomic Learning in the US. On this occasion I was half way up the Eyre Peninsula at Arno Bay so I thought I’d give it a go. Why [...]

Make Friends With a Tuna

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Day 4 - Saturday 16th July - 432 Km - Ceduna to Port Lincoln
At Port Lincoln they invite you to:

Then you can have it for dinner! The harbour is full of tuna in feeding pens.

Ceduna Sunset

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Day 3 - Friday 15th July - 521 Km - Eucla to Ceduna
Arrived at Ceduna and were welcomed by an amazing sunset. I was told they are quite common here and there are a number of amazing photos around the town to confirm it.

Testing NextG

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Day 3 - Friday 15th July - 521 Km - Eucla to Ceduna
I wanted to put NextG to the test. Here I’m using it at Eucla with the antenna and it worked fine despite antarctic temperatures.
It is quite an experience to plug into the Internet anywhere, even whilst driving along.
Someone told me it only works [...]

Funny what you see on the Nullarbor

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Day 2 - Saturday 14th July - 1050 Km - Southern Cross to Eucla.
Crack of dawn start to get as far as possible on day 2.
Mostly you see this on the Nullarbor (but sometimes no trees).

But there are also other things.
A railway engine at Balladonia Roadhouse

A big bucket taking up both lanes.

A plane taxiing round [...]

Fremantle to Southern Cross

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Day 1 - Friday 13th July - 422 Km
We left after lunch and made it to Southern Cross the first night. Most of the road follows the Golden Pipeline Trail which I’ve been reading about recently. It follows C.Y O’ Connor’s legendary water pipeline from Perth to Kalgoorlie and much of it it is along [...]

Catching Up

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

At last I’ve got organised to post to the blog. We left home on 13th July (despite being Black Friday) and are now in Melbourne, 4250km later. I made the mistake of choosing a time based plan at NextG Bigpond and that doesn’t allow for the browsing around and cutting and pasting that you need [...]