We were sad to leave our wee outback cottage. To William's delight Mark spots a fox (which crosses the road in front of us) as we drive into Broken Hill. We took in the view of the Broken Hill mine from a lookout. It was blowing a real gale so we don't stay at the lookout for long.

We were hoping to make it to Port Augusta today but it is 411 km away but we don't know how we will go with the kids.

We stopped about 35 km from Broken Hill and just before the
South Australia border and ate the yummy mandarins that our hosts gave us in Silverton and our other fruit as we know we will be stopped at a quarantine station in South Australia. We discarded what we didn't eat. When we make it to the station (turns out it is a couple of hundred kilometres over the border) we are pretty sure we have nothing we can't take. Turns out we had a cucumber lurking in the cooler! We have it to the quarantine officer and continued on our way.

Lunch was a picnic in a cute wee town 'Peterborough'. There are lots of nice grassy areas but it is just so windy! We quickly eat our lunch and visit 'Steamtown', a heritage rail museum where they have a 1st class carriage from the Ghan which was retired in 1980. The rooms were tiny with only one single (if you can call it that) bed in each.

Around Peterborough the landscape changes and is covered by what we think are wheat and canola crops. It is very green. Between Peterborough and Port Augusta the landscape really changed again, there were hills, grass and lots of trees. The roads a lot windier. Today also we have encountered very little traffic on the road. As we get closer to Port Augusta the landscape dramatically changes, it is flat and there are no trees.

We arrived in Port Augusta without any hassle and quickly found a motel for tonight. Emily fell asleep (for the third time today) just as we are pulling into town. Looks like we might be having a late night! We will look for other accommodation tomorrow as we plan to stay for a few days. We are happy to be here, it's been a long day.