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Moonta

Tuesday 26th Nov We arrived in Moonta (pronounced like the lunar moon-ta) and have absolute water frontage sites. It is beautiful but hard to enjoy it when the SE wind is gusting at over 30 km/h and not expected to abate until 9pm. The tide is on the way in. At midday it was 0.4 m and will be at a peak high of 1.8 m at 4:40 am which means right at our doorstep. First things first, time to get a load of sheets and towels washed. At least it dried quickly.  Once that was dry we drove into town and found the Tourist Info centre located in the beautifully restored old railway station. Moonta is known as 'Little Cornwall' because in its heyday it was a thriving copper mining town with a big Welsh influx making up the population. Eric first sourced the local outlet that serves the best cornish pastie. Unfortunately it is closed for the day. Tomorrow we will do the mining history in detail but for this afternoon we were satisfied with getting some groceries, a book and, as an une