21 Apr 2025

 21 Apr 2025

Penultimate day has just been done! Well for the 2025 Morris Minors Rally in Perth anyway. It has sort of turned into a South Australian Silo Art trip along the way as well. So I guess it is fitting that I wind up the SA Silo Art tomorrow too. I saw a few today and got thoroughly sent in the wrong direction by the TomTom, it added about 120 kilometres to the trip. Anyway made it to the cabin for the night and found a pizza vending machine for dinner (there is nothing else at all here for food after 4 PM. 

I am in Karoonda for the night and the cabin is fantastic, it is an ECO Cabin, so it has everything you need in a small package, it is solar and battery operated, and has a fridge and air-cond as well.

A Cabin in Karoonda

So today was made up of 4 Silo Art sites, though I didn't realise when I set out today that two of those were Silos were only accessible via lots of unsealed roads. Unsealed roads are fine and that is what the car had to deal with when it was new, but it was built in 1955 and it isn't in its "first flush of youth" anymore, so what is fine in a modern is a but hard on a 70 year old car. That said, there were some great sites along the way. it was 128 kilometres from the night stop to Galga, and only about 30 of that was dirt, but every street in Galga is dirt too, it is in the centre of nowhere 

Driving the dirt highway 

Interesting locations along the way

Some very nice Silo Art too:

Galga Silo Art - painted by: Jarrod Loxton

Form there another equally great road out to Copeville, not sure how that town is even still there, just a hand-full of houses and very overgrown tennis courts. Nice Silo Art though, glad to have seen it, though I can't see me every going back.

Copeville Silo Art - Painted by: Jarrod Loxton

From there it seemed like a very long way along some very ordinary dirt roads to get back to the sealed highways, though some more side of the road interest along the way:

Finally back on the main roads again, the TomTom decided to add a huge amount of mileage and stress to the mix by dropping me on one of the busiest highways I have seen in weeks, well out of the way of where I wanted to end up too, 125 kilometre drive to get to Coonalpyn when it could have been 60 kilometres (as I did on the way to the next Silos and the nights stop at Karoonda:

Coonalpyn Silo Art - painted by: Guido van Helten

Karoonda Silo Art - painted by: Heesco

There are two more Silo Art sites to see tomorrow, that it seems that my last on in South Australia will not be quite done, they are currently painting another Silo where it is. Then there is one in Victoria I need to see again as they have recently completed repainting the Silos with a new creation. The it is straight home!...