July 27th: Woke up early and drove to Cleve. We called in at the Pink Door for a delicious flat white, but no-one knew any details of exactly when the hay trucks were coming. I managed to get my sister to consult the Farmers across borders Facebook page and establish that the trucks were converging upon the Cleve Field Day site, but many of the trucks had already dispersed in different directions out of Wudinna.
On our way to finding this site we saw 3 hay trucks approaching Cleve. They were huge! We visited the Goyder memorial then went to the Field to watch 10 trucks unloaded by front end loaders and the hay transferred to smaller trucks. We spoke to Lions club volunteers cooking snags and onions for the driver's, volunteers directing the drivers where to go, to locals from Cleve and to a truck driver who had driven from Norseman with his partner and 2 dogs.
Although the surrounding areas now look green after recent rains, it has apparent too late for any hay to grow for the stock. Others said that the drought in Victoria is worse that in South Australia.
We headed on down the Birdseye Highway to Cowell, where we went down to the jetty and found an elevated walk among the grey mangroves, the only type of mangrove growing in South Australia We continued on the Lincoln Highway to Whyalla, right on the beach, but dominated by the huge steelworks. We went to the Visitors centre and booked Monday morning’s tour of the steelworks.We then went up Hummock Hill to the Lookout over the town, over the jetty and over the steelworks.
We went to the Discovery caravan park and got a site right on the foreshore, where we could remain attached. We saw pied oyster catchers out our front window
Just had pasta and veggie sauce with freshly grated Parmesan for dinner, cooked inside on the induction cooktop.
We go to sleep to the sound of gently lapping waves on the beach outside our open window.
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