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Wednesday
.
[OE.
Wodnes daeg
‘day of (the god) Woden’
tr. LateL.
Mercurii dies
‘day of Mercury’
. N.E.D], Thefourth day of the week. Also
attrib
. b. In the names of certain days of theecclesiastical calendar, as
ASH WEDNESDAY
. Also
Good W., Holy W., spy W.
(
Anglo-Ir.
), the W. beforeEaster.
a …z
(3rd edition)
7/9/94
(
Port Germein
(no 58)
)
.
Got up at dawn – a very still morning. The car wasfeeling a bit unsteady on the way to Burra. Didn’t realize I was driving on a flat tyre – thought it wasthe gravel – till I got on the sealed road just out of Burra. The tyre was completely shredded; lucky Ihadn’t ruined the rim. So long since the last time I had to change a wheel that at first I couldn’t findwhere the tools were – took ages. Cost of new tyre - $110. Drove to Telowie Gorge near PortGermein and walked through the gorge and back – took 4½ hours. Am writing this in Port Germein.Came here to phone home again but will spend the night as this is a town with character – old, veryquiet, very flat. There is a pier here that’s over a kilometer long. The sun sets on the opposite side of the gulf to the town so everything is bathed in light till nighfall. Will park next to the pier for the night. ¶The place reminds me of Port Albert. There is nothing glitzy or touristy about it. On one side is thegulf, and the backdrop to it on the east are the Flinders Ranges. It has an ‘outback’ feel but I suspectis very comfortable to live in. Port Pirie is not very far away. Tonight I will walk to the end of ‘thelongest pier in the Southern Hemisphere’ – which I have discovered is 1560 meters long. Over 3kilometers to the end and back.
2/10/96.
Another thing I forgot about here – the roosters (6/2/08.
Tuesday
23/5/08(no 68)
). They have a session in the middle of the night and then another long before dawn. I wonttry to describe the beauty of their song as I could never match
Thoreau
on the topic. The odd onecan still be heard now, soon after sunrise (7am). They are going good and proper again now. If you’ve grown up in the city without the music of roosters this is the place to come to find out what itsall about. Every morning should be announced like this. Last night H & I saw what looked like a truckdrive into the sea and head out west; we were on our nightime walk on the pier. H really thought itwas a truck and found it surreal. There is a vehicle here on stilt legs with wheels at the bottom whichtakes boats out to sea on a trailer till there is enough depth to launch them. It has a two-way radio soit can communicate with boats already out to pick them up. The other way of launching a boat is totow it out on a trailer by tractor. The tractor is then left in the water which becomes dry land when thetide goes out. If a boat is towed out at low tide presumably the tractor has to go back to shore. Thereis a crab season here and a yearly crab festival. After breakfast we were engaged in conversation byan elderly local redneck who believed in whites being banned from breeding with blacks. Then off tosee Alligator Gorge in the Mt. Remarkable Nat. Park where we went via Melrose, a particularlypicturesque small ‘boutique’ town nestling at the foot of the ranges. We did a slow walk through thegorge for about 4½ hours, slow because the stream was running pretty hard because of the recentrains. Back at Port G. (23/5/05. LfOrVaEnCkE (25/5/05 a noljbl frnchmn @ th CAFÉ PATISSERIE inErrol st North Melb told me this mornn th@ th rue Saint Germain de prés in th quartier ST.GERMAINiz a sntr 4 lettres et arts & th chrch St Germain de prés iz th ldst in Paris) woz teln me 2day th@ rueSt. Germeine in a sberb of th same name iz of spshl sgnfkns 2 th riterz & rtsts of Paris) we find thatseveral aboriginal women have settled in near ‘our’ sleeping spot. They’ve got a ghetto blaster withem, a small dog and a kid. The redneck had told us this morning that they are no different to dogsanyway. I hope they are gone by bedtime or at least that they are not too noisy. Meantime I must becareful of our gear because if anything goes missing they are sure to get the blame. The policestation is only a couple of hundred yards away and our spot out of earshot of the half-castes (theseones are properly black) is in view of the cop shop. I don’t want to be told by the police we should bein the caravan park especially as if the half-castes try to sleep in the spot they are in theyd probablyget kicked out (13/2/08. 2da Kevin Rudd rplj
zd x2 &
sorry
x3 2 thndjnez vOZ). Our intentiontonight is to repeat our routine of last night: walk on the pier, read the paper in the pub, another walk.Just before tea we found some mussel shells (5/2/08. razr
) on the beach that are over a foot long.There is a bloke with the half-castes – I can hear him sounding off, maybe about the policewomanwhom we saw yacking to them for about ½ an hour when we came back.
23/9/98.
Morgan → Burra (coffee & to read the paper) → Spalding → Gulnare →Georgetown → Gladstone → Laura (where we talked to a shoemaker who makes coloured, alladin,and other fancy ones) → Wirrabara (where a bakery makes fabulous pies & pasties (8/7/08. n10d 2
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Stone Hut
7kz
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Tuesday
27/5/08
)) 4 Hz rthd l8r nth y
)) →Port Germein. These are terrific towns unlike anything in Victoria and you can buy a great house inany of them for $50,000. Inspecting towns is something both of us enjoy, and with a selection like this
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I think its fair to say we had a great day. On arrival in Port Germein we discovered that the spotbehind the old rail shed at the top of the pier is closed off as public works are using it while they aremending the pier, however we have found a beaut spot a couple of kilometres to the north past the nocamping sign and through the racing track. Helen is making some soup and we are right on thebeach with a view of the pier to the south. After a stop at the pub later we are coming back here for the night. During the day we decided we are heading for the Gawler Range, north of Port Augustainstead of the Flinders Ranges. I’ve never been there – its exciting.
17/2/99
(
The Hat (alt. title: jehovah)
(no 27).
(
Monday
3/12/01 (no 67)
))
.
Warren Willman & Adam Cadd are two guys Ive bumped into 3 times today. I am late with this entry as theyhave only just left after not getting even a bite off Pulpit Rock near where Im parked for the night once again.The first occasion was when they arrived before 7 am for some early morning fishing. I never saw them in person then but noted the bible on the dashboard of their 4x4 half-truck when I got up later. It was Ross & hismate (3/12/01. two fishermen I had been meeting & chatting with over previous days) that gave me the wake upcall when they came in at 7.30. I left for my walk along the coast to the lighthouse at 8.30. Found a great felthat that fits me excellently & used to belong to Lee Kernaghan (
3/2/08. “
The boy from the bush is back in town, withcountry music star Lee Kernaghan named Australian of the Year for 2008. A proud Kernaghan, 43, admitted he was surprised at thehonour but said he would use his new role to help farmers battling the drought. Naming him Australian of the Year, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said: "Lee Kernaghan's music resonates with every Australian by connecting us all to the spirit of the bush, but moreimportantly he gives hope and pride to those on the land when they need inspiration most. He has rolled up his sleeves to make a realdifference for those in need in rural Australia." … Mr Kernaghan was chosen from more than 3,000 people nominated by the public.
”
-
helenz)
who is an official member of The Outback Club. Its in perfect condition & definitely wasnt washedup by the sea. Got to the lighthouse at 12.30 & commiserated with the keeper about how nature is gettingstuffed by technology. Apparently there are plans to add new car parking areas besides the ones at Pulpit & CityRocks. On the way back I noted that Disaster Bay was looking very still & seeing as the tide wasnt out tillabout 4 pm had time for one more diving effort. As it turned out the conditions were just perfect, absolutelyamazing. On the way down my special track I found the 4x4 with the bible & later met the two guys. Talkedthem into joining me in the snorkelling & showed them the Port Jackson sharks. They were whooping withexcitement at finding abalone but only took 3 each & measured them for legal size. They were jehovahswitnesses from Ensay. The only other jehovahs witness there is Cathy Smith who with Bruce & 11 year olddaughter Caitlin are back there again permanently. Small world! We were all excited about that & the fact I alsoknew Geoff Bigmore who is a legend with them. They are passing on my regards & promise of a visit to theSmiths. They insisted on leaving their own addresses & asked me over to their camp at Betangabee for a beer. Ideclined fearing religious zealots but, after more diving by myself further along the coast where I plucked upenough courage to touch & then tweak the dorsal fin of a Port Jackson shark which refused to move anyway,when I got back here their car was in my spot while they were fishing off Pulpit Rock again. They caught upwith me over my tea & we yacked on like old friends. They insisted on giving me a packet of corn thins(3/12/01. thats the start of my practice of carrying corn thins on trips) when I told them about my bread(3/12/01. which had got mould spots on it). Now its getting dark, the mozzies are suddenly out in droves & Ihavent put up the nets yet. The reason I was keen on them diving with me was because I figured it woulddecrease my chances of being taken by a shark by 66%. In fact it would have been by more as they werentwearing rubber suits & one was quite fat.
24/5/00
(
DANYO RESERVE
(no 53)
)
.
Heading home; from one trusty camping spot(Port Germein, in which area Ive found a whole new set of great spots to stop) to Danyo roadsidereserve where I am now with two stubbies of Southwark Old Stout (7.4% alc/vol). Ive been drivingthrough a lot of locusts, mor than ever before, and have to stop more frequently at petrol stations for a clean down. Am listening to Saulius’s tapes (5/2/08.
Tuesday
18/12/07
) at last and they are upto the usual extremely high standard that Im used to from him. Have stopped listening to the drinking(5/2/08. & thhabt!) songs that Gyras gave me as Ive got them fully under control. This trip has beenheavily musical. Had a coffee and read the paper at Morgan where I talked to two guys (standing atthe bowser, cleaning off locusts) who had left Perth on Monday and had been driving continuously.One was unlicensed and the driver was stary eyed and evidently liked to drive barefooted. The water pump on the car wasn’t working so they were having troubles with overheating as the locusts wereclogging up the radiator. I wont have to attend to mine till I’m home. They were using a clothesline for an aerial. They are heading to Ballarat and I reckon it wont be long before they are there – maybealready are. Am listening to Lauren Newton right now and about to start reading
Gargoyles
by
Thomas Bernhard
(5/2/08. ystrda got ♂z 1
st
Frost
d ← Amazon). Its 3.55 pm.
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