We had to stock up on things before our trip up through the centre so we stayed a night here at a site at the local sports club where self contained vehicles only can stay. Port Augusta is located at the top of the Spencer Gulf and at the end of the Flinders Rangers so it is a service centre for the outback.
It has a fairly large Aboriginal population and at the Wadlata Outback Centre you can learn how they have lived here for 40,000 years, they say that Port Augusta is the Crossroads of Australia due to its location on the main trade route.
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A view of the Flinders ranges from our caravan.
The next morning saw us on the road fairly early, our first destination probably a roadside rest area as it was 536kms to Coober Pedy which was too far as it gets too hot to travel later in the afternoon. We stopped and had lunch at Woomera after 180kms. This place was known as Woomera Rocket Range and is in the Woomera Prohibited Area where the Maralinga nuclear tests happened and is still a test range for the testing of weapon systems. During the 1950s and 1960s it was the second busiest rocket range in the world next to cape Canaveral. The main attraction is the National Aerospace and Missile park which is in the centre of the village. It features missiles and rockets that were developed and tested at Woomera over the last 60 years.
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