Three years ago I collected my first and only speeding ticket moments after the Kwaka clocked up 140'000 kilometres in Karte so today chose to go back out there. I hadn't planned on stopping in Blanchetown but with -2°C showing on the dash I needed to defrost and pulled in for breakfast. I was a bit annoyed that even though I sat down they put my coffee in a paper cup.
A random find on the outskirts of Loxton.
My planned refuel was at the OTR in Loxton only to find it was closed. After checking out the map at the Information Centre on the main street found an alternative, refuelled and pushed on.
No sign of a railway track but did find a level crossing sign, whistle board, siding sign and a cairn in Taplan.
From there on the road turned to dirt. That's one reason why the Versys was chosen for today's ride. I'm not sure if the Meribah Memorial hall is used these days but probably is a private residence like a few things I saw today.
I am pretty sue the Peebinga post office is. I snapped a few post offices today.
The irony of being at a telephone exchange and not getting any reception. I tried posting this one at Kingrin to instagram at the time but couldn't get a signal so that had to wait until I got to Lameroo.
Karte was where I got booked three years ago (albeit on the Browns Well Highway) so I had to get a picture here but I didn't see anything but a home made town sign. No post office, no memorial hall, no churches... it was bit of a let down. Not even a silo.
I did see a silo at Gurrai moments before snapping this colorful ruin. Gurrai wasn't on my mud map so it threw me. A bloke in the pub tells me that modern day Lameroo includes the former settlements of Kulkami, Mulpata, Wirha and Gurrai, which were on the Peebinga railway line. I saw heap so of signs for turnoffs to Mulpata today and put that on the 'to check out' lost. Kulkami I have been to many times. Gurrai I 'found' today and Wirha I just learned from the bloke in the pub.
GPS tracking for the day. I was so close to crossing the line (the Victorian border). GPS logger also tells me I did 621 klicks for the day.
p.s.
If you're wondering what 'a bloke in the pub' means it's my way of saying Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it, just like a story someone tells in the pub.
