Sunday 26 June Today we took the bikes off the front of the caravan and went for a ride around the marsh (or Billabong) just in front of the caravan park, then along the Murray River and into town for a little shopping. The weather was just beautiful again so we walked into town again in the afternoon. Butternut Pumpkins are in abundance here at the moment so I have been doing a little cooking. Pumpkin soup, pumpkin scones, roasted pumpkin salad, pumpkin fritata etc - tomorrow I am going to make a pumpkin fruit cake and maybe a chicken and pumpkin curry. John says he does not like pumpkin but he is eating everything I cooked. I was checking the camera today and came across some photos I took back at Port Augusta of some ... read more

Wednesday 22nd June 2011 We have spent the day packing up - we are going to leave Port Augusta this time. John finished working for Jimmy Martin yesterday - Port Augusta has been very good to us with the weather being a little cold but very little rain and nice sunny days. We have had plenty of sight seeing to do with plenty of day trips around the county side but we are ready to carry on with our travels. We are going to start heading north towards Queensland where we will look for some more work where the weather is a little warmer. I am recovering from a fall last week where I landed face down on the cement out side the caravan needing to have a gash over my eye glued up. So of ... read more

Sunday 29th May Today we headed towards Orroroo to have a look around - what a very quaint old town with many of its old homes very nicely renovated and very well looked after. First we stopped and looked at the Giant Gum Tree which is estimated to be over 500 years old and is approx 10.4 mtrs (34ft) in circumference, then visited the Tank Hill Lookout (great view over Orroroo), Pekina Reservoir and Pekina Homestead ruins, the Lions Park Pekina River Park where I took the reflections photos and we saw some Aboriginal Rock Carvings, then had our lunch on the park tables in the middle of the main street (very nice spot and a great way to use up the very wide road down the main street) then headed to Magnetic Hill where we ... read more

Sunday 22 May 2011 Wet and cold today so thought a drive would be better than sitting around in a cold caravan. Invited Margaret and John to join us to visit Melrose and we had a great day. Showed them Hancock Lookout - even though it was a cloudy we still managed to see the stunning view (the wind was very cold though). Walked around the town checking out all the very old buildings - Melrose Surveyed in 1851 but some of the buildings are older than that and still standing today - many still in use. The cloud was hanging over Mt Remarkable all day. Checked out all the eating places for some lunch - the first hotel was too costly but an interesting old renovated hotel, the blacksmith cafe was booked out (it looked ... read more

John came home from work and said he had a bad toothache on the tooth he had a root canal job on back in Geraldton only about 3 months ago - we were not impressed - managed to get an appoitment the next day with a dentist in Port Augusta - just before we went to bed he said the tooth felt loose. He woke me up about 4am and said the tooth has just fallen out and now the pain was gone. We cancelled the appointment and the gum has healed up well. Quite a relief. On Friday we settled in for the big wedding (William and Kate of course), setting our chairs up outside the door of the caravan as it was still quite warm outside - the people in the next caravan came ... read more