On our recent road trip Mr HP and I came across a few engaging signs which I enjoyed photographing.
I'm going to share a few of them on my blog. Most of the signs have their own unique story behind them while I found others self explanatory but a little bizarre (in my humble opinion).
There's a place in Australia (well, one could hardly call it a town, or even a village... perhaps a settlement) called Innamincka. It's up the Strzelecki Track (yes, here in the desert the roads are called tracks)from Lyndhurst. Mr HP and I visited Lyndhurst in 2010. That was an experience in itself. In the outback, communities are ruled by the elements and 2010 had experienced a late wet season. In the northern part of Australia it said that there are only two seasons in a year: the wet season, and the dry season.
The wet season occurs in the spring/summer months, and the dry season in autumn/winter.
Because of the late wet, many of the roads were closed in the winter of 2010 and this limited the places we could visit. For us, in 2010, Lyndhurst was the end of the road (although I walked along it for about a hundred metres...I wasn't coming all that way to say I hadn't been along the Strzelecki Track!)
So four years later, we arrive in Innamincka along with what must be scores, if not hundreds of other tourists. Here we find a Trading Post, and a hotel. There are coin operated showers and a toilet block in the car park.
On the outskirts of the 'town' there is an 'airport' as well as a town common which is a free camper's haven alongside the Cooper's Creek. It's a fisherman's dream to fish along the river's bank and entire families make this a destination.
At Innamincka, the hotel, not surprisingly, is called Innamincka Hotel.
The Innamincka Hotel has a beer garden which is called....outamincka bar & beer garden.
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| At Innamincka, there's a bar called Outamincka... |
The play on words took a while to click but when it did, well, I thought it was cute!
Unfortunately, being not yet lunch time, the bar was closed so we partook of morning tea in the hotel, where everything comes with a sprinkling of dust...and an enormous amount of generosity as you can see from the size of the serve of ice-cream I received with my affogato...
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| I asked for an affogato.... |
...but then, the size of my serve of ice-cream may have something to do with the temperatures out here...in the desert...
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| You can see the shower block, on the right behind the screen. A number of concrete water tanks have been transformed into 'buildings' to house the toilets and showers. |
because it looks like the roads aren't only closed because of the wet,
but also during the summer because of temperature extremes(40-50'C)!
