Saturday 3rd May.
Today was a bigger day of travel, covering some 423 km's.
From Moorook we travelled via Barmera, Morgan, to Burra where there was an annual antique fair in full swing. There were lots of stalls to inspect and heaps of lovely food outlets so we had lunch there before refuelling and pressing on. The traffic on the secondary roads we are using is very light which aids in covering big distances at a constant speed.
About 10 km's north of Burra we stopped at the small settlement of Mount Bryan where they have a
very large wind turbine farm on an adjacent hill. Aside from the 34 turbines at this location they have an impressive static display featuring one blade from a turbine and a number of interpretive notice boards. This installation was installed by AGL, so we had added interest as our son Rodney is an AGL employee.
The wind farm is the $166 million Halletts Hill No.2, one of four wind turbine clusters operated by AGL in the mid north of South Australia. Halletts Hill wind farm produces enough energy to power 40,000 homes. The centre of rotation of the blades is 80 metres above ground and the blades are 44 metres long. This means that the tip of the blade at its highest point is 124 metres above ground level.
After this very informative break from our travels we proceeded on via Peterborough to Port Augusta, then a further 35 or so kilometres further north on the Stuart Hwy. to our chosen overnight rest spot. On arrival there were already another four or five travellers set up for the night.
Keep the commentary coming. Very informative. Talk soon.
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