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Four days on a Greyhound hardly seems the ideal outback holiday,but Sue Williams has some tricks in mind as she embarks on the longest bus ride in the world.
Casting nervousness about creepy-crawlies aside,Lee Atkinson camps out in high-class style.
Louise Southerden gains a new sense of space and time on the Ghan's 80th anniversary.
<b>Port Augusta</b><br><b>Major port and centre at the top of Spencer Gulf.</b><br>There is no other town in Australia quite like Port Augusta for contrasts. Arrive in spring and the journey over the mountains from Wilminton is a magical experience. The car cuts through Horrocks Pass down onto the seaside plains near Port Augusta. To the west lie the beautifully contoured,undulating slopes of the Flinders Ranges. They are magical in their beauty and,in spring,they are impossibly green and fertile. At sunset they are gently coloured with a purplish hue. Yet this is only one angle on Port Augusta. The town is literally on the edge of the desert. Drive north along the Stuart Highway and only a few kilometres to the north,the edge of town gives way to flat scrubby land which stretches to the horizon. To the west lie five huge plateaux and their are dry salt lakes beside the road.