Today was another transit day with no particular sight seeing stops planned. We had a leisurely start to the day and after a quick stop just down the road at Pimba to fuel up, we turned left to head back to Port Augusta, although it was tempting to turn right and head North to Uluru or even Darwin! In parts the road (Stuart Highway) is near the railway line and in fact we crossed it a couple of times.

Looking for a place for a toilet stop and lunch we turned off the Eyre Highway into Iron Knob . Iron Knob is a bit of a ghost town since mining stopped some years ago and when we stopped here in February, could find no sign of life. But this time we found the museum open and in fact they were offering mine tours as mining has recommenced. We were impressed by the work of the band of local volunteers who manned the museum and they made us very welcome. However we'd done our quota of mine tours and passed on that, but walked around the museum and watched a short video of Iron Knob's mining history. As part of the museum display was a photo of Dawn Fraser and the caption explained that she had broken the Iron Knob swimming pool lap record, even though she had her legs tied together! On leaving Iron Knob after lunch in the caravan we saw big trucks dumping what we presume to be the spoils of the mining operation on a very large pile.

So around 3:00pm we reached Kimba, famous for being Halfway Across Australia and which we visited during our February trip to South Australia (Refer here) . After setting the caravan up at the caravan park we drove into the town centre for supplies. After a long drive we decided to stretch our legs with a walk around town and came across some very large farm machinery, which I suppose is not unexpected as Kimba is a service town for the farming area around it.

A storyboard told an interesting story about the Kimba hotel. Wally Bache dismantled the Yeelanna hotel and moved it stone by stone by railway and in 1924 was recreated in Kimba. This seemed to be a theme because on the opposite corner of the intersection was a storyboard which told how the original shop on that corner had also been relocated from Cowell.

Dinner was the remainder of our Southern style chicken tenders and a German potato salad.