you've all had a day to rest, shall we continue our walk?

on Tuesday, I left you as we (the collective, royal, "we") were leaving the beach and heading towards Fisherman's Jetty.

Before I went I took photos of the skatepark.....that's new to me...

see that bare ground behind it? There's some sort of construction going on there....perhaps the skatepark isn't completed yet.

I took a couple more photos of the causeway, aka John Pirie Bridge, one of each end.....

the far end,

and the near end. I'm not sure what the metal work is behind it, it belongs to the silos.
In between the causeway and the silos is Fisherman's Jetty and to get there, I had to pass this....

looks like an old boat launcher to me. It's entirely enclosed in a wire fence with barbed wire topping.

So I walked around it and on towards Fisherman's Jetty. In my memory, fishies wharf was rough and rustic, one long jetty with many small walkways leading off the side with two or three small boats tied to each walkway, each boat having its own gangplank. It was a very busy area, many of the townspeople going out and catching their own dinners, the water was often murky and on the side away from the silos was a rickety set of steps leading down to some rocks where my brother would fish. That has gone now and the whole area has been cleaned up all spiffy-like.

just look at that clean, blue water!

this is the cleaned up version of the jetty. At the far end you can see a few of the old walkways still leading off the main jetty, which itself is very narrow and now locked so the public can't access it. Between those boats is just water, no more of those rickety walkways we used to walk along and talk to the fishermen.
Off to the left is the Port Pirie Yacht Club, I didn't photograph that, there weren't any sailing boats out, just a locked building. I remember from high school, the kids who belonged to the yacht club would have their little sail boats out on the water most weekends and they were quite snobbish sometimes.

Beyond the yacht club is where the wharf began, huge ships would tie up there, sometimes only one, but more often two or three would be lined up along the length of it. When I played around the wharf with my brother, we'd make friends with sailors from the ships and sometimes get invited on board to look around and of course we'd go. We never sensed any danger, and I distinctly remember at least twice being on deck so very high above the water looking down to where the anchor had been dropped. We'd have a quick look around, then be off back to the fishies jetty or all the way back to the beach.

this is one of the larger fishing boats tied up where a huge ship once tied up. From here all the way around to the Smelters there were big ships with unpronouncable names from places we'd look up in the atlas at the library.
Just back off this area are the silos. I first saw them from Wandearah Road while walking towards the overpass....

that's them in the distance, bright white against bright blue.
There are four sets of silos now, the first set is grey in colour and was built while my brother and I were young and reckless enough to play around the construction area, climbing up and down and around all sorts of places we shouldn't have been.
I'm sure watching these silos going up influenced my brother quite a bit as he now works in the concrete construction industry building similar things all over the country.

the brownish grey silos on the end are the first ones to have been built, with the darker grey ones behind coming later. The white sets, photos below, are newer and larger. I can't say for sure what those metal things are, I think maybe some kind of grain moving apparatus, to feed grain between the silos and the trucks.

It was getting quite hot by now and I was getting hungry, so I headed for the footpath to get past the silos.....

here's a long shot.....

looking up.....

and there is the sun.

One more photo....

Just before I passed the silos, I spotted this.....

funny looking thing, so I zoomed in on the front end to see what it said on there....

it's a grain cleaner! How about that!

I bet it doesn't use water and detergent, ha ha.

I found my way to the nearest Subway sandwich shop and bought lunch, took it back to the motel room  to eat, then had a nap. I regret not taking photos of the motel rooms from the outside, the entrance I showed you a couple of posts ago, (I think, did I?) doesn't look overly impressive, but the rooms have been made to look nice with a small verandah along and brick pillars with pot plants and chairs.

to be continued.....