Leg 187, Eucla, Western Australia to Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
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Into Victoria today, gold rush country. Unfortunately map quality is pretty poor around here but I still found the place where the biggest ever gold nugget was found.
02-24 Eucla YECL 4:18 PM
02-24 Border Village YBOV 4:21 PM
02-24 Ceduna YCEU 4:30 PM
02-24 Cook YOOK 5:00 PM
02-24 Ooldea YODA 5:30 PM
02-24 Barton Siding YBTN 5:51 PM
02-24 Ceduna YCDU 6:35 PM
02-24 Streaky Bay YKBY 6:57 PM
02-24 Elliston YELN 7:24 PM
02-24 Cummins YCUM 7:52 PM
02-24 Port Lincoln YPLC 8:02 PM
02-24 Thistle Island YTHI 8:16 PM
02-24 Port Lincoln YWGI 8:26 PM
02-24 Althorpe Lighthouse Airstrip YHON 8:40 PM
02-24 Rocky River YROK 8:57 PM
02-24 Parndana YPDA 9:11 PM
02-24 Kingscote YKSC 9:20 PM
02-24 Penneshaw YPSH 9:32 PM
02-24 Aldinga YADG 9:48 PM
02-24 Huntfield Airfield YNOA 9:54 PM
02-24 Adelaide Intl YPAD 10:14 PM
02-24 Murray Bridge YMBD 10:32 PM
02-24 Sherlock Ultralight Airfield YTAI 10:44 PM Short runway
02-24 Tintinara YTIN 11:04 PM
02-24 Cooranga YCNG 11:30 PM
02-24 Lucindale YLUI 11:37 PM
02-24 Edenhope YEDE 11:52 PM
02-25 Horsham YHSM 12:10 AM
02-25 Donald YDOD 12:28 AM
02-25 Bridgewater YBGR 12:48 AM Welcome Stranger 36°45’39.5"S 143°39’07.2"E
02-25 Navarre YNVE 1:06 AM
02-25 Stawell YSWL 1:17 AM
02-25 Pomonal Airstrip YSTE 1:25 AM
02-25 Hamilton Aero YHML 1:41 AM
02-25 Mount Gambier YMTG 2:07 AM
Flight time 9:49 34 stops
Departing from Eucla at sunrise
Border village on the border between Westernand South Australia
And I’m back on the Trans Australia Railway
Cook Train Station and Airport in Nullarbor
Pretty much a ghost town nowadays
Ooldea Train Station, end of the straight railway line section
Barton Siding
Diversion to the coast, Ceduna
Small town on the Great Australian Bight
Elliston on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula around Waterloo Bay
More high cliffs
Point Drummond at Mount Hope
Thistle Island
Althorpe Lighthouse Airstrip, fun place to land
Althorpe Islands Conversation Park
Sheidow Creek South side of Adelaide
Boral Quarries
Morphettville racecourse and Adelaide Airport
Adelaide, South Australia’s cosmopolitan coastal capital
South Australian Museum and Art gallery of South Australia
Near Donald, Victoria 3480
Kooyoora State Park
Bridgewater
Is that a reference to https://twitter.com/ruddthedud1 ?
Found it, the “Welcome Stranger” monument
As seen on Gold Rush, Parker’s trail
Next to Gold Rush we also get Aussie Gold Hunters aka The Dirt Dogs here, great show
Mount William
Hamilton Aero
And final stop today in Mount Gambier
Known for its blue lake and Umpherston Sinkhole turned into a garden in 1886
And the Engelbrecht cave
Great for diving
Tomorrow Melbourne and Tasmania.