As the bakery was closed I walked 1.5kms to Mozzie’s Truckstop which serves good coffee. I found a website advising three gypsum trains a day run between the mine near Penong and Thevenard. A train leaves Thevenard at 10.30am each day and returns loaded at 4.30pm, so I walked back to our caravan park beside the rail line and the empty train passed me at 10.44am. Three engines haul the long train. The ground beside the track is white due to spilt gypsum.
I walked past the Ceduna School House Museum which is included in the National Trust. Unfortunately it is closed on Sundays, but I could see the small green building that was the 1902 Ceduna Post Office, and the red 1905 jail. There is a fairly large gum tree in front of the old school house.
Anita was spending time cooking fruit and vegetables so they can be taken into Western Australia. I took Bluey for a drive to Denial Bay 13kms away. From the late 1880s there was a small town at Denial Bay that was the hub of the district. After the rail line and water pipeline to Ceduna were constructed in 1946, the town facilities of Denial Bay all closed. Only a few houses and a couple of buildings associated with oyster farming remain. This mural is part of the half size basketball court. The only other public facilities are the jetty and a toilet block.
It rained during the afternoon but cleared in time for another wonderful sunset.
We had dinner at the hotel bistro, but the meals were disappointing. The menu described a special as roast pork with crackling, but the vegetables were undercooked, there was no crackling, and the plate was cold.
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