Whyalla & stuff we did.
On a tour of the Whyalla steel works.
Coke ovens, very smelly.
The only manufacturer of rail line in Australia.
Steel billets, each slab weighs 11 tons.
Hundreds of rollers for rolling out steel in different profiles.
The Line out to Iron Knod ( visited in earlier posting ) source of iron ore.
A long & crazy story, but I had to make a day trip up to Port Augusta to service the car.
Port Augusta day trip.
LNG & oil loading facility at Port Bonython, at the end of the 647km pipeline from Moomba.
Point Lowly lighthouse.
A couple of divers heading out to see the giant cuttlefish wich are in at the moment, just off the beach.
Mt Laura homestead & museum.
The sign is a little rustic.
These volunteers trying to get this engine going.
Coal gas attachment for when fuel was scarce.
The original 1914 jail.
Cycling around Whyalla.
Loading iron ore barge.
Steel works.
Harbour & swimming enclosure from Hummock Hill.
Looking back over the foreshore & our caravan park from Hummock Hill.
Wartime gun emplacements converted to picnic shelters on Hummock Hill.
A Corvette mine sweeper built in 1941, the first of many ships built in Whyalla has been dragged 2km inland & put on display.
Part of the the HO model railway setup in the museum building.
Model train video.
On board HMAS Whyalla.
Engine room.
Unusual view from a ship.
Sailing the SA desert.
A skinny Mathew Flinders at the lookout.
The tide is out behind the caravan.
Pano from the lookout.
A couple of divers heading out to see the giant cuttlefish wich are in at the moment, just off the beach.
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