Rural Week - Fun!

~ - ~ - ~ Whyalla ~ - ~ - ~

Rural week was a week spent at Mirambeena Motel in Whyalla, a rural town 5 hours drive north of Adelaide in the Spencer Gulf region.

Nice quiet town, and the motel wasn't too bad. My room was pretty spacious.

Basically, I went there for a hospital attachment to Whyalla Hospital, to talk to the doctors and see the facilities in a rural hospital, as well as experience the lifestyle there.

"The town is quiet... too quiet" *ominous music*

Life in a rural town is tranquil and serene. And snail-paced. Supermarkets and other commercial and recreational shops and buildings are sparsely interspersed. The town is mainly residential, with two main shopping areas. The houses have impressive and beautiful facades that included Dorian pillars, marble statues, small gardens with rows of rose bushes and clusters of Birds of Paradise, tiny picket fences, wondeful brick walls.. wow!

The town was tainted red, though, because of a iron/steel factory at the edge of the town that was spewing iron(III) oxide (the red stuff) all over town! Even the sea gulls were bright pink!

Went to the outskirts of the town later in the trip to have a glance at deserty areas, be mesmerised by sheep shearing, walk on dry sand and rock, smell the cool afternoon breeze, and bask in the blazing warmth of the sun.

Refreshing experience.