KIMBA Kimba is the next town encounted when heading west from Port Augusta to Ceduna. Kimba is also the name of the Walt Disney cartoon lion. Kimba is a relatively new town that services a rich grain producing area. Although newish clearly heritage factors are important to Kimba. Kimba has also holds the claim of being the halfway mark when traveling by road from a coast to coast in Australia. The word “Kimba” is derived from the local Aboriginal word for “bushfire”, and the District Council of Kimba's emblem reflects this in the form of a burning bush. The first European in the area was explorer John Eyre who passed through the area on in late 1839. The area was first settled in the 1870s by lease holding pastoralists who moved north up the Eyre Peninsula during the 1870s and 1880s. There is 7 metre tall statue of a Big Galah beside the highway marking halfway between the east and west coasts. The Kimba Hotel is an old pub that was relocated, brick by brick in 1924. Nice pub this. The Churches in Kimba are a mix of old/traditional and new. The War Memorial in Kimba is a ‘new’ format acknowledgement. There was no Kimba prior to 1920’s The Kimba Museum is located near the big Galah. Kimba is a nice spot and if an overnight has to be considered, Kimba will not disappoint.