Stuart Highway out of Port Augusta

Stuart Highway

Sunset over Pimba Rest Area

Pimba Rest Area

18/5/2012  -  Up early this morning and left Rawnsley Park Station.  We had a good stay here and will return if the chance arises.  We backtracked back through Hawker, Quorn and on to Port Augusta.  We weren't really impressed with the town as it isn't very RV friendly making it very hard to find parking spots to shop and the town itself is not that well maintained.  We topped up with bread and milk and fuelled up at the Coles Express servo for $1.47 that was using discount vouchers.  We also bought an electric blanket and a couple of fleece blankets to try and make the bed a bit warmer at night.  We should be able to run the electric blanket on low settings from the Inverter.  We headed out of Port Augusta and on up the Stuart Highway heading up the centre.  The land is so barren up this way.  It is like driving through a desert with small clumps of plants a bit like spinifex. We are hoping to get up to around Woomera today. Had lunch at North Tent Hill Rest Area where there was so much litter so we ate fast and headed out.  We got to Pimba just down the road from Woomera and stopped for the night at the Rest Area opposite Spud's Roadhouse. Heaps of vans were already parked up there when we got in but a lot more arrived after us.  There must have been at least 40 vans in there for the night.  We were all just parked up in the dust but there were showers and toilets there and it was free.  It was a bit noisy at times with lots of trucks using the road and the roadhouse but that wasn't a problem for us.