Today was an absolute scorcher. It got up to 42 degrees. I went into Whyalla and the place was pretty dead. Where I'm camped was still cool in the morning but Whyalla was already extremely hot and extremely windy. I got my supplies and high tailed it back Point Lowly. It was only about half an hour before the heat and wind hit here. The flies are so incredibly bad that it is impossible to be outside the tent. At least 25 but often closer to 40 flies tag along, buzzing around my head and getting caught in my hair. The tent, of course, is not a place to escape the heat. So I spent today leaving the tent, jumping in the ocean, returning to the tent until I was too hot and repeating. My skin and hair would completely dry in the ten metre walk from the ocean to the tent. I switched my phone off and put it on charge, and it was still too hot to charge. I ended up wrapping it in a damp cloth to cool it down to charge. That's when it's switched off!
It is now almost 8pm and it is around 31 degrees. It got dark about an hour ago so the flies buggered off and I ventured out to cook dinner. When I finished I got a wet wipe out to do the washing up and by the time I'd gathered the one plate, one fork and one frying pan (which takes longer than it sounds because I forget where I leave stuff) the wet wipe was dry.
Bizarrely, there was an article on news.com.au a few hours ago about the unseasonably hot day in Port Augusta and the sudden plunge in temperature all along the coast as the southerly kicked in. But there hadn't been a sudden plunge in temperature. There still hasn't. They completely bullshitted that article.
Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler so I am outta here. Not going to Adelaide. I think I found and interesting route around it.
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