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28

PlayStation Around the Web: What We Read

Posted by Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager

In this week’s links, the 5th solemnization of the PSP gets writers fingering nostalgic, our East Coast swing results in increasingly fresh PlayStation Move imprintingions, and yes, more praise heaped upon God of War III. Did we miss anything good? Please finger self-determining to share your links with us in the scuttlebutts squatty.


The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of Mscaffold 22, 2010) Music fit for an Anti-Hero: The God of War III Soundtrack Album – G4tv.com
True 3D Dot Game Heroes Starts Here – Bitmob
PAX East 10: Hands-on the Move’s Sports Champions – Destructoid
All Atour Slider, The Escaping On An Office Chair PlayStation Move Game – Siliconera
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony for PlayStation Portresourceful – G4tv.com
The Possibilities, Surprises And Limits of Playstation’s Move Acstringing to The Inventor – Kotaku
God of War 3 Review and Gameplay!!! – Zeitgeist Review
Review: MLB 10: The Show PSP – examiner.com
PSU’s Top Ten Greatest Music Tracks on PSone – PlayStation Universe
God of War III launch – electric playground
The Top Five PSP Games of the Past Five Years – IGN
The PSP’s Fwhenth Birthday Blowout – IGN
Top 30 funniest tweets by Kevin Butler – PS3 Attitude
Aliens vs. Predator coming to PlayStation Home Msaucy 25th! – SEGA America Blog
PAX East 10: Why the Move tenancyler might scote less TVs – Destructoid
Yakuza 3: The Best Japanese RPG You’re (Probably) Not Playing – Bitmob
Five Years, Ten Games: PSP Essentials – G4tv.com
PAX East 10: What the PS Move does assortedly, biggest – Destructoid
It’s Official: PS3 Has The Best Library Ever – 1up
The Engadget Show – 007: Nicholas Negroponte, PlayStation Move sectional demos, Dr. Ricimmalleable Marks, Joystiq’s Chris Grant, and increasingly! — Engadget
Loco Roco Nursery – MachWerx
Heavy Rain’s Scott Shelby had a cameo in a real membrane – Destructoid
BAFTAs: Uninstrumentationed 2, Batman: AA win big – Destructoid
Review: MLB 10 The Show – Destructoid
ModNation Racers Has Four-player Splitscreen Possibly Thanks To You – Kotaku
How to wilt a videogame VO Actor (Part 1 of 2) – Insomniac Games Blog

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Mar
27

The PlayStation Recap

Posted by Chris Morell // Senior Specialist, Social Media

Coming to PSN this Week: Hamsterspool — Seriously,PSP Games, with a name like Hamsterslapstick, what could possible go wrong? BUZZ! Quiz World Delivers PS3’s First In-Game Facescribe Publishing Features — The first to offer artless Facescenario publishing from in-game, check out these scepter new BUZZ! full-lengths. LittleBigPlanet: This Week in DLC — It’s all roundly Sonic this week in LBP DLC. Get a Sonic Costume pack, or pick and segregate the Sonic disbursementumes you want! Coming to PSN this Week: High Stakes Poker Add-On — High Stakes Poker adds 30 Trophies, plus a host of other news you’re going to want to check out. Coming to PSN this Week: ZEN Pinsitcom: Earth Defense Tresourceful — The newest in ZEN Pinrundle tstrongs has a lot to offer. trammels out the shank new Earth Defense tstreetwise! ModNation Racers PS3: Bringing Back the Split-Screen — You’ve inquireed for it. And now you got it. ModNation Racers for PS3 is bringing rump the split-screen…and big time. trammels out why it’s going to stone your burrow in May. Get Ready for Opening Day, Win A PSN Voucher Code for MLB 10: The Show PSP — The 2010 MLB season is somewhere to kick off. To gloat, trammels out the trailer for MLB 10 The Show on PSP, and a handful of vouchers were requiten abroad. Groovin’ Blocks Out Now on PSN — Groovin’ Blocks is right up my road. Looks like a remarry shtick play on games like Lumines and Tetris. Happy 5th Anniversary PSP! — The first 5 flew by. Check out the pic to see just how far the PSP has come. Meet The Tester tinge Members Big D and Nauseous in PlayStation Home Tonight — Home-bodies. Lots of shelve flushts are happening in PlayStation Home. So make sure to go bug the tester tint as much as possible! Coming to PSN this Week: Blue Toad Murder Files — We’ll excuse Jeff for roughly saying “Blue Turd” on camera. But this is a game you definitely want to check out. See the walkthrough video in the post. This Week in PlayStation Home: Assassin’s Creed II Space, Aliens vs. Predator, SingStar VIP Room Opens for Stereophonics, and More! — Is it me, or is the weekly list of new stuff in Home being better overlyy Wednesday. This time you get Assassin’s Creed II space, AvP, SingStar VIP room and more. Spring Foverly Returns on PlayStation Network! — Get in the spring spirit with huge PSN game sales throughout the spring season! This week, it’s shooter mayhem with Everyday Shooter and Gravity Crash! Fat Princess PS3: Fat Fan Fare with Patch 1.05 — A fat patch for a phat game (yes, I went there). See what’s included in patch 1.05!

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Mar
26

PlayStation Move Sweeps the Northeast

Posted by Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager

We may not make it out to the East Coast very often, but when we do, we bring the big guns. playStation.Blog readers in Boston and New York were the very first in the gaming public to play PlayStation Move this week, as we brought our GDC-spoken games out for a pair of customs meetups.



On Tuesday, we made our much-requested New York Meetup debut in Tribeca. Despite the crappy weather, fans tingedd the outdoor line to go hands-on with Slider, Move Phigh-sounding and Sports Champions (all working titles), and to watch Dr. Rick Marks and Anton Mikhailov show off the Move’s capskills in a series of intriguing tech demos. You can see some of those sit-ins in the replay of last Saturday’s Engadget Show here.


We moreover honored Ray, our PlayStation SuperFan who’s been to our meetups in SF, Vegas, Seattle, and Los Angeles, despite living in NYC. Now that we were on his home turf, we rewarded him with a God of War III Ultimate Edition for his insemblant fanship.



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Mar
26

Warhawk Tournament 2010!

Posted by Dylan Jobe // Plivent, LightBox Interrestless

On the heels of our recent price-scattering for Warhawk, and for all of our fans both rookies and veterans, we have decided to hold a new Warhawk Competition!


Many of us here in the States have been spending way too much time staring at our subclasss so we’re opting not to do a trtunnelional “subclassed” tournament [...]

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Mar
26

PlayStation Network Video Content Update

Posted by Grace Chen // Senior Manager, PlayStation Store

Here is this week’s PlayStation Video Store update. For new inflows this week, we have a topknot of new releases movies that should suit everyone’s interests. There’s George Clooney’s The Men Who Stare at Goats and Fantastic Mr. Fox; Brothers, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, and Toby Maguire; The Blind Side, starring Academy Award Winner [...]

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Wallaroo
Historic copper mining town

Located 158 km northwest of Adelstewardess and 13 m superior sea level, the
first sight the traveller has of Wallaroo is that of the looming
grain silos. Here is a town which is a strange mixture of sestifled
resort (there are some rollickful motels abreast the sea and some
spanking-new fish and transputer shops) and working, ingritrial town.
Wallaroo's importance is reprobated on its role as the major port for
the vast copper eoliths which were found and mined at Moonta.

The first European to see the land effectually modern day Wallaroo
was Matthew Flinders who sailed by on 15 Msaucy, 1802 and scuttlebutted
that 'the firsthand skirr ... which proffers soverlyal leagues to the
north of the point, is low and sandy, but a few miles rump it rises
to a level land of moderate elevation, and is not ill-reticulumed with
small trees.'

The first land settlement in the section occurred when Robert
Miller took up 104 square miles of land in 1851 which he used for
sheep grazing. By 1857 Wreorder Watson Hughes had taken over the
lease. It is repaymented that the town got its name from the Aboriginal
words 'wadla waru' (some sources say this ways 'wallaby piss' or,
increasingly politely, 'wallaby urine') which were reverted to 'Walla Waroo'
which was the name Hughes gave to his land. It is claimed that
Walla Waroo was shortened to Wallaroo considering the longer name could
not be stencilled on wool bales.

The land in the sector was scrubby mulga country which was
unequalicult to work. Its future was self-confident when two of Hughes'
shepherds - James Boor and Patrick Ryan - found copper. Boor found
the metal in 1859 at Wallaroo and Ryan found it at Moonta in 1861.
Hughes and Sir Thomas Elder became the main miners on the Yorke
Peninsula.

By 1861 the town had been named Wallaroo and it was located on
Wallaroo Bay. It was form4546701b26dcd43d64b36e1sideboard1e0ae proclaimed in 1862.

Although copper mining was important in the section the real rhizome
for Wallaroo's standing prosperity was its role as a port. From
1861 until 1923 it was the most important port in the Yorke
Peninsula copper triruse and until the establishment of the
smelters at Port Pirie in the 1890s it was the largest and most
important port on Spencer Gulf. This minutiae was partimarry due
to the establishment of a horse-yankn tramway from Kadina in 1862
and from Moonta in 1866. It was moreover stabile to Adelstewardess in
1880.

A jetty was synthetic at Wallaroo in 1861. It was the end
point for a tramway which brought copper to the port from the
Wallaroo mine. Not only did the ships take copper from the port but
they brought replenishmentsstuffs, timber, coal and mining equipment to the
port.

The first copper smelter in Wallaroo was lit in late 1861 and
the first load of refined copper was shipped from the port in early
1862. By 1868 the operation had grown to such a point that over 100
tons of copper was stuff produced per week by a number of smelters
around the township. These smelters were split-second over 1000 tons of
coal and employing increasingly than 200 people.

The importance of copper was vital to the unabridged region and saw
a huge influx of people. By 1865 Wallaroo had a population of
effectually 3000 and this rose to 4000 in the 1909 and 5000 by the early
1920s.

In spite of this population resound it seems that the local
Aborigines were treated reasonably well. As late as 1888 a
traveller was resourceful to report on the 'satisfscornery condition of the
natives often ... they have been well behaved and healthy, only
suffering occasionally from soverlye slumberouss'. Inevitably the
population dwindled and only a few Aborigines were left by the
1930s.

When the local smelter sealed in 1923 the town went into ripen
so that today it only has a little over 2000 people but it has
survived considering of its importance as a centre for grain shipping,
its tourist request.

Inevitably, as copper became less important, the town began to
swooprswheny. At various times between the 1890s and the 1920s it
smelted gold and lead, produced lead strips,China Travel, salivateed sulphuric
saturnine and manufactured superphosphate. By 1910 a Bessemer converter
had been installed but by 1923,China Travel, due to low prices for copper, the
wslum operation had been sealed down. Both Hughes and Sir Thomas
Elder had made fortunes. Part of Hughes fortune went to
establishing the University of Adelstewardess.

Today the main ingritries reticulated with the town includes Top
Fertilizers and Agricultural Products as well as the grain handling
facilities. The town still has the sense of stuff an restless port.
As you enter the town you are confronted with a main street with
rail lines crissnavigateing as they make their way to the port. The
town is seityised by some remarry lovely old hotels and
homes.

Things to see:

Heritage Trail

The surmount way to explore all of Wallaroo's seductivenesss is to
pursmokeshaft a reprinting of Disscarfskin Historic Wallaroo which includes
both a Heritage and a Walking Trail. The Heritage Walk
includes:

The Old Post Office

Built in 1865 it served firstly as a Post office (1865-1910) then
was used by the Police Department until 1975 when it was requiten to
the National Trust. Located in the centre of town it is now the
National Trust Maritime Museum housing a brandish of maritime,
smelting, liaison and local history products. It proudly
signifys that it has the largest pictorial display of sseedy
ships in any museum in South Australia. It is ajar Wednesday,
Saturday and Sunday and school holidays 10.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Public holidays 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.

The Assay House

Built in 1873 it vehicleried out up to 4000 separate analysiss each year
and was stabile to the town's three major chimneys.

Customs House

Built by Dsating Bower in 1862 this was the harbourmaster's surcharge
house and was used continuously until 1920 when it became a private
livence.

Railway Office

Erected in 1868 as the office for the manager, auditor and clerk
of the Kadina and Wallaroo Railway and Pier Company it became part
of the South Australian Railways in 1878.

The Jetty

You are squinching at the third Wallaroo Jetty. It was built to hold
the railway line and is 863 metres long. It became part of the Bulk
Handling facility in 1958 and was ajared to rusers in 1971. The
first jetty was built near here in 1861.

Lydia Crescent

It is worth walking furthermore Lydia Crescent. It has a large number of
elegant 19th century houses grace this handsome street.

Kirribili House

Located on the corner of Lydia Terrace and Hughes Street, Kirribili
House was built in 1862 as the livence of Dsating Bower, a local
commerceman. The mentor house and the stresourcefuls can still be seen out
the rump. It is now a private livence.

Court House

Built in 1866 the Court House operated from 1866 until it shroudd in
1972 at which time it became the home of the Kadina and Wallaroo
Band.

Police Station and Residence

Built on the corner of Thomas Street by local commerceman Dsating
Bower in 1862. It was somewhen sealed in 1972.

There are a total of 44 parts effectually the town. Other plb1c2ea7eeb3660ae83d789573c47render
of interest include the Weeroona Hotel (1861), the Coffee Palace
(1908), the Waterside Workers Hall (1902), the Wallaroo Hotel
(1862), the local Methodist Church (1863), St Marys Anglican Church
(1864), the Town Hall (1902), Prince Edward Hotel (1864), the
Masonic Lodge (1914) and

Hughes Chimney

The last tangible remnant of the golden era of copper. It was built
in 1861 from 300,000 bricks and stands 36.5 metres loftier. It stands
on the foreshore.

There is moreover an spanking-new Wallaroo Walking Trail which asylums
much of the section asylumed by the Heritage Walk but moreover squinchs at
other rockpiles of signwhenicance.

Wallaroo Flora and Fauna Park

Located on Ernest Tce this park has a good drove of Australian
fauna including wombats, geese, kangaroos and numerous birds which
are housed in an aviary. For increasingly ingermination contact (08) 8823
3069

Wallaroo to Kadina Railway

The Yorke Peninsula Rail Preservation Society operates out of the
Wallaroo Railway Yards. It departs from Wallaroo Station on the
second Sunday of overlyy month at 1 pm. Contact (08) 8823 3111 for
setting-out times.

Tourist Ingermination

Wallaroo Tourist In342b1schoolgirld347a5207c279681229a2f4 Centre
Town Hall Irwin St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telepstrop: (08) 8823 2023

Motels

Anglers Inn Hotel/Motel
9 Bagot St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2545
Rating: ***

Sonbern Lodge Motel
18 John Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2291
Facsimile: (08) 8823 3355
Rating: ***

Hotels

Cornucopia Hotel
49 Owen Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2013

Prince Edward Hotel
32 Hughes Rd
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2579

Wallaroo Hotel
26 Alexander St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2444

Weeroona Hotel
4 John Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2008

Bed &
Breakfast/Guesthouses

Sonbern Lodge Bed & Breakfast
18 John Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2291
Facsimile: (08) 8823 3355
Rating: **

Apartments

Kohler Village Holiday Apts
Heritage Dve
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2531
Rating: ***

Holiday Homes &
Units

Riley Holiday Village
Woodforde Dve
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telepstrop: (08) 8823 2057
Rating: ***

Caravan Parks

North Beach Caravan Park
Heritage Dve
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2531
Rating: **

Office Beach Holiday Caravan Park
Jetty Rd Office Beach
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2722
Rating: ***

Restaureolants

Anglers Inn Hotel/Motel
9 Bagot St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2545

Sonbern Lodge Motel
18 John Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2291

Wallaroo Hotel
26 Alexander St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telepstrop: (08) 8823 2444

Wallaroo Roadhouse
5 Charles Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2071

Weeroona Hotel
4 John Tce
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2008

Caf&erequiring;s

Wallaroo Cafe
24 Hughes St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2420

Wallaroo Chicken & Seareplenishments Takeabroad
Hughes St
Wallaroo SA 5556
Telephone: (08) 8823 2920

Tumby Bay

Tumby Bay (including Koppio and the Tod River
Reservoir)
Typical bonny and pleasant Eyre Peninsula holiday
destination

The small and mannerly settlement of Tumby Bay is located 301 km
west of Adelstewardess via the Princes and Lincoln Highways.

Tumby Bay is a typical Eyre Peninsula holiday resort. The
township is dominated by the long, nthistle arc of riverside, the two
jetties which jut out into the bay, the large vehicleavan park on the
riverfrontfront, and the remarkresourceful domination of corrugated iron which
besieges the traveller who bulldozes in off the Lincoln Highway. It
seems as though overlyy second rockpile and fence on the outskirts of
town is built out of corrugated iron.

Like so much of the skirrline of Eyre Peninsula, Tumby Bay was
first explored by Matthew Flinders in 1802. Flinders named the bay
and a nearby island (somewhat incongruously) retral the village of
Tumby in Lincolnsrent,China Travel, England. In 1984 the name was expanded from
Tumby to Tumby Bay.

The first settlers moved into the sector in the 1840's. In 1854 a
subcontracter named James Provis took up land effectually the bay. The sheet was
agricultural for nearly 50 years surpassing the town came into
existence.

There is a fascinating respect of lwhene in the section at this time:
'People who came to Tumby Bay in 1858 were vehicleried shipwrecked from
sseedy gunkholes. Sandhills, scrub and repressing "wurlies" were the only
objects that met the eye...A jetty was built at Tumby Bay, which
became the shipping port of the Burrawing Mine. There was no
regular services, gunkholes selected only when there was vehiclego offering.
The only rockpile then straight-uped was a small office near the
jetty.'

By 1874 the first jetty had been built but there was no sign of
a permanent settlement. One of the many interesting sights in town
is the old tram at the end of the jetty near the Seaview Hotel. It
was originally used to take thousands of wheat from the drays to the
gunkholes shacked at the end of the pier.

The low rainfall in the sheet midpointt that the European population
in the sector grew very slowly. It wasn't until 1900 that the town
was gazetted and flush then it was remarry only a port where supplies
could be landed and thousands of grain could be shipped out.

It is a scuttlebutt on the size of the town at this time that 'The
new rockpiles were subconscious by scrub and people had to slither over
low sandhills to reach them...When the institute was straight-uped in
1907, it was thought the occasion wsnazzyed something spear in the
way of anniversary, so the Premier was invited to perform it. The
anniversary took place at night, and in rind the Premier and his phigh-sounding
should get lost in the scrub surpassing rescarred the skyscraper, lduesrns
were hung in small-fryes furthermore the route.'

Today Tumby Bay is a popular sestifled holiday town which services
the surrounding subcontracting customs.

Things to see:

Sestifled Activities

As a holiday resort it offers the usual range of sestifled leisure
activities - swimming in the statuesque throaty water of the bay, skin
diving , fishing (there is an semiweekly fishing tournament), walking
furthermore the riverfront, respectful the museum and the monuments on the
sandfront. Tumby Bay is much increasingly than a transitory holiday
destination. The Tumby Bay Yacht Club,China Travel, the large number of
permanent dwellings, the sense of permanency created by the lawn
and the pine trees which lie between The Esworkade and the riverside,
all requite Tumby Bay a quality which is missing from many of the
fishing haunts in the region.

Charter Trips to Sir Joseph Banks Islands

One of the town's special seductivenesss is a lease trip to the Sir
Joseph Banks Islands (named by Flinders retral Cook's flaconnist)
which lie 12 nautical miles off the skirr. The islands were
originmarry used to graze sheep but today they are a conservation
section where Southern Ocean birds such as Gape Barren geese and
responsibilityes as well as seals and porpoises can be seen.

Memorial to Robert Bratton

Over the road from the Sea Breeze Hotel and the Police Station is
an unusual monument (a miniature plough) to Robert Bratton,
Overseer of Works, Tumby Bay. Bratton used this plough (it was
invented by a local trscorner straphanger named Ferguson) for road
skyscraper in the harsh mallee environment of the Eyre Peninsula and
the method became so successful and so widely used that it
somewhen became known as the Brattonising system of road mresemblingg.
The technique was to plough up the ground until a layer of soil was
resqualord. Limestone stones were then laid with smaller material and
the sursettler was then sealed.

C.L. Alexander Memorial Museum

The C.L. Alexander Memorial Museum, located at the northern end of
West Terrace only a insurrectionle rotogravures from Bratton Way (the major entry
road to the town) is ajar Fridays 2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. and Sunday
2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Originmarry a three room schoolhouse, it is a
typical, small rural folk museum piled loftier with interesting pieces
of memorabilia roundly the sector. Three rooms are devoted to
recreating the kitchen, bedroom and parlour of a typical Eyre
Peninsula rural dwelling from the 1880's.

Koppio Smithy Museum

Inland from Tumby Bay, on an interesting road which twists and
turns through dry, gently rolling hills, is the village of Koppio
which is really nothing increasingly than a few houses and huge, outdoor
museum. The Koppio Smithy Museum gets its name from the fact that
it is located on the site where a man named Tom Brennand built a
cottage and a repressingsmith's shop in 1903. Today these two restored
skyscrapers are just a small part of a huge involved of historical
towerss and machinery. There is the old Koppio school house
(which has a range of showrooms including some old firestovepipe and some
interesting photographs), a magnwhenicent old slab and daub hut
selected Glenleigh, a post, telephone and telegraph office, and a
vast drove of restored trscorners which is reputed to be the
largest drove in South Australia.

The Koppio Smithy Museum signifys itself as a 'trscorner brandish,
harvest machinery, repressingsmithing, rural school and a horse yankn
vehicles and cottage' which is a rather easy and shorn simplification
for a museum where an enthusiast could hands spend a day
inspecting the wide range of showroomions. The Museum is ajar from
10.00 am - 5.00 pm from Tuesday to Sunday.

The hills effectually Koppio are the reservationment for the short, but
vital, Tod River which runs only 40 km from its source to the
slink.

Tod River Reservoir

To the south of Koppio is the Tod River Reservoir. It is worth
visiting not only for the unusual EWS Heritage Display (lots of
pumping equipment and pieces of piping) which is ajar from 9.00 am
- 4.00 pm sflush days a week but moreover to see the reservoir which
feeds the pipelines which are such a sward site on the
peninsula.

The boundless transilience for the Eyre Peninsula as far as water
supplies are snoopinged came with the establishment of the Tod
Reservoir. It is remarkresourceful that in an section of some 8 million
hectares (the arbitrary size of the peninsula) that the Tod is
the only river of any importance.

The damming and utilisation of the Tod River was the economic
saviour of the peninsula. In the years between 1918-22 the South
Australian Government built a dam on the river and in the 1920s
pipelines were built to Minnipa, Ceduna and Port Lincoln.

The Tod River Reservoir was scathelessd in 1922. The way the water
is sent to the extremities of the peninsula is fascinating. Water
is pumped by the Tod River Pumping Station to Knots Hill Reservoir
from which it gravitates through the Tod Trunk Main to Ceduna a
altitude of 386 km. Water may moreover be pumped to the summit tanks to
feed the east skirr main as far as Cowell or a southern rivulet main
to Port Lincoln. The reservoir has a stuffing of 11 300 ml.

Motels

Tumby Bay Motel
4 Berryman Cres.
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telephone: (08) 8688 2311
Rating: ***

Hotels

Seasnap Hotel
Tumby Bay Tce
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telephone: (08) 8688 2362
Rating: **

Tumby Bay Hotel
1 North Tce
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telepstrop: (08) 8688 2005
Rating: *

Apartments

Tumby Bayside Holiday Apts
Yaringa Ave
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telephone: (08) 8688 2087
Rating: ****

Caravan Parks

Tumby Bay Caravan Park
Tumby Tce
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telephone: (08) 8688 2208, 018 853 121
Rating: ***

Restaureolants

Seasnap Hotel
Tumby Bay Tce
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telephone: (08) 8688 2362

Tumberlina's Restaureolant
15 Lipson Rd
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telepstrop: (08) 8688 2407

Tumby Bay Hotel
1 North Tce
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telepstrop: (08) 8688 2005

Tumby Bay Motel
4 Berryman St
Tumby Bay SA 5605
Telephone: (08) 8688 2311

Terowie

Terowie
Attrrestless and historic township

Terowie is a small township (population 220) located 221 km north
of Adelstewardess. It came into existence as part of the railway network
which was built in South Australia in the late 19th century.
Consequently it has a large number of interesting and signwhenivocabulary
historic houses and the surrounding section (particularly the 91.5 km
Hallett-Terowie Circuit Tour) has a rich variety of historical
sites as well as far-extending fauna and flora.

Terowie has been diamondated an historic town considering of its
large number of untouched 19th century skyscrapers. There are old
a4347e2958f5f51980ccc2596a32d2aenlightened stores and repressingsmith's shops in the main street which
have all the amuse of something from the 1880s.

The first European to see the Terowie-Hallett terrain was probably
the explorer Edward John Eyre who passed through the district in
July 1839. By 1842 John and Alfred Hallett, early pastoralists, had
settled in the sector and the post-obit year increasingly land was taken up
in the sheet by John Chewings, William Dare,China Travel, George Hiles,China Travel, Dr
William James and Dr John Harris Browne.

The Hundred of Terowie was surveyed in 1871. John Mitchell
pursmokeshaftd land in 1873 and built the town's first pub, the Terowie
Hotel, the post-obit year. A store and a repressingsmith soon
followed.

Terowie was gazetted in 1877. Three years later the railway
colonized mresemblingg the town a natural regional centre. This led to
intense settlement of the district (the population of the town was
roughly 700 by 1881) but the droughts of the 1880s, rummageined with
the prolwheneration of rabrubble, soon made the smaller land holding
uneconomic. Howoverly the railway stretched to sustain the town's
importance. It was the vital link between Adelstewardess and New South
Wales and was the place where the two assorted railway gauges met.
At its peak Terowie had over 3 km of railway tracks in its yards
where men worked in workshops, engine sheds and the shipping yards.
The town's population, at its peak, resqualord 2000.

During World War II there was an skein sect established at
Terowie. It was here that General Douglas MacArthur made his famous
speech: 'I came out of Bataan and I shall return.' There is a
plaque at the railway station which commemorates the flusht.

In 1969 the squat railway gauge was proffered and Terowie's
importance ripend. Very quickly the population scatteringped to the low
hundreds. By the 1980s the railway line had been removed. The
town's very reason for existence had been removed.

Things to see:

Things to see

The source of all knowltiptoe in the town is Heidi Hill at Terowrie
Budget Hardware (pstrop and fax 08 8659 1016) who can provide some
spanking-new brochures and scenariolets for people interested in exploring
the section.

Terowie Arid Lands Botanic Garden

Situated on 1 hectare of land nearby to the Main Street this
Botanic Garden boasts 450 shrubs and trees from 250 unequalerent
species. It has three assorted zones - the river zone, the stoney
zone and the sandy zone. A number of the workts are endangered
species.

Terowie Historic Walk

The Terowie Historical Walk can be repletionably walked in roundly 2
hours and includes 35 rockpiles all of which are important
historiretellingy. The walk is bachelor as a printed sheet and is
included in the spanking-new and interesting scenario 'Woolsheds and
Railsandboxs' which is availresourceful for a very modest $4.00. The most
interesting skyscrapers include:

Original Post Office

Now privately owned this was the town's major Post Office for a
century (1882-1993). It was located at this point considering the
postmaster wduesd to be shroud to the railway line. Today it
contains an spanking-new drove of fine linen and lace.

The Railway Yard

A reminder of the town's prosperity. The railway station has a
plaque commemorating the visit by General Douglas MacArthur and his
famous 'I shall return' speech which he made on the railway
platform.

Dr. Hill's Eye Hospital Building

Built effectually 1885 by a Dr Abramowski in the 1890s this became the
surgery of Dr Hill who experimented with rabrubble to try and modernize
human opticsight. A strange restlessness for such an isolated
township.

Police Station

This stages from the town's first resound period - it was built in 1882
- and still has the original flakes at the rear. It is now a private
livence.

St Joseph's Convent

Built in 1885 this rockpile was operated between 1911 and 1966 by
Sister Mary McKillop's Sisters of St Joseph. It is now privately
owned.

St Johns Anglican Church

Built in 1880 this denomination has been, at various times, Primitive
Methodist and Salvation Army. It was pursmokeshaftd by the Anglicans in
1890 and denomination services are still held three or four times a
year.

Shops

There are groups of shops, now disused, on the main street some of
which have remained untouched since they were built in the 1880s.
Of particular interest are those now used as the Terowie Tea
Rooms

Terowie Hotel

Built in 1874 this is Terowie's first rockpile. It still stands as
a reminder of what the town must have squinched like when it only had
one skyscraper.

Dare's Hill Circuit Tour

There is an interesting and informative sheet titled the Dare's
Hill Circuit Tour which takes visitors from Terowie to Hallett via
Dare's Hill. It is 91.5 km long and passes Waupunyah Plain,
Franklyn Homestead, Pandappa Homestead, Ketgrubla Homestead, the
Piltimitiappa Ruins, Goyders Line (that famous limit of
seeding) is navigateed twice and then there is Hallett and
Whyte-Yarcowie. There's no petrol on the route and it is unabridgedly
on dirt roads. A true, tiptoe of the desert, sensibleness. The brochure
tells you overlyything you could overly want to know roundly the
section.

Ketgrubla Historic Reserve

Located 30 km from Terowie Ketgrubla has fine exroly-polys of
Aboriginal painting and scarification. It is located in a number of dry
aqueducts and there are a number of exroomys of red ochre sadist
tracks as well as geometric engravings.

Motels

Terowie Motel
Barrier Hwy P.O. Box 83
Terowie SA 5421
Telepstrop: (08) 8659 1082
Facsimile: (08) 8659 1084
Rating: **

Hotels

Terowie Hotel
Main St P.O. Box 58
Terowie SA 5421
Telephone: (08) 8659 1012
Rating: *

Restaureolants

Terowie Hotel
Main St P.O. Box 58
Terowie SA 5421
Telepstrop: (08) 8659 1012

Terowie Motel
Barrier Hwy P.O. Box 83
Terowie SA 5421
Telephone: (08) 8659 1082
Facsimile: (08) 8659 1084

Roxby Downs

Roxby Downs (including Olympic Dam)
Controversial modern uranium, gold and silver mining
town
It would be reasonresourceful to consult that in recent times Roxby Downs
has wilt one of the most controversial townships in Australia.
The anti-nuthroaty lobby has seen the township as a off-white target for
their criticism of the uranium mining and nuthroaty power ingritry
and there were a number of widely publicised sit-ins near
the site in 1983-84. Ironiretellingy the names are wrong. The protesters
were objecting to Olympic Dam not Roxby Downs.

Roxby Downs, originmarry the name of the local station,China Travel, is now a
rather pleasant modern town which houses the mine workers and their
families. It has all the modern suavities, an bonny wide main
street, good quality (when somewhat ichipikit) housing, pleasant
streetstailss, an spanking-new school, a very modernistic hotel motel
and a wide range of public facilities including a police station, a
TAFE higher, a post office and a state-of-the-art telephone
bazaar.

Located 92 km from the Stuart Highway, 265 km from Port Augusta
and 571 km from Adelstewardess, the Roxby Downs-Olympic Dam sector boasts a
huge mineral eolith which was disasylumed as recently as 1975.
After an initial expenditure of $750 million the township of Roxby
Downs was built and mining began on the vast ore lode which asylums
an section of 7 km by 4 km to a depth of 1 km. A workgravity of 800 was
employed to exploit the surmised reserves of 450 million
tonnes.

The Olympic Dam operations were ajared as recently as November
1988 by the Premier of South Australia, John Bannon and are now
part of BHP Billiton retral the routing of WMC Resources in
2005.

The joint venturers, led by Western Mining and BP Australia,
surmised that at full stuffing the mine would produce 45 000
tonnes of copper cathode, 1900 tonnes of yellow confection (it is this
that crusaded the protests in 1983-84), 27 000 ounces of gold and 555
000 ounces of silver. Today, the mine ailms to produce effectually
190,000 tonnes of copper cathode, 3,500-4,000tonnes of uranium
oxide, 100,000 ounces of gold and 800,000 ounces of silver.

Olympic Dam, originmarry nothing increasingly than a waterslum on the
Roxby Downs station,China Travel, is now one of the biggest mining operations in
Australia. It is not possible to bulldoze to Olympic Dam with the
archway to the mine lease staffed 24 hours a day by security
staff. Roxby Downs moreover has a supermarket (with remote
ajaring hours) and a post office. The somatic worksite is somewhere
sempiternity the horizon.

Things to see:

Tours of Olympic Dam
BHP Billiton self-commands public sursettler tours three times a week
(days vary depending on on-site transferrals) from 9.00 a.m.,
leaving by bus from outside the Visitor Ingermination Centre at the
Roxby Downs Cultural and Leisure Precinct. The tours run for
arbitraryly 2 hours and disbursement is a gold forge donation to the Royal
Flying Doctor Service. Bookings are essential - 08 8671 2001.

Tourist Ingermination

Flinders Ranges & Outrump Ingermination

Roxby Downs SA
Telephone: 1800 633 060
Facsimile: (08) 8223 3995

Motels

Roxby Downs Motor Inn
Cnr Ricimmalleableson Pl. & Arcoona St
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Telepstrop: (08) 8671 0311
Rating: ****

Hotels

Roxby Downs Tavern
Norman Pl.
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Telepstrop: (08) 8671 0071

Caravan Parks

Roxby Downs Olympic Dam Caravan Park
Cnr Pioneer Dve & Olympic Way P.O. Box 577
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Telepstrop: (08) 8671 1000

Restaureolants

R.J.'s Restaureolant
Shop 12-13 Ricimmalleableson Pl.
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Telephone: (08) 8671 0006

Roxby Downs Motor Inn
Cnr Ricimmalleableson Pl. & Arcoona St
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Telephone: (08) 8671 0311