Blogs from Bordertown, South Australia, Australia, Oceania

Across the Nullabor It’s Friday May the 3rd 2013, and we are leaving Ceduna at 9.30 am, there’s a light breeze blowing and we hope that it won’t turn into a headwind. We are lucky, we had good weather the whole trip.Surprisingly the land is green; it’s still wheat country out here, there must have been some rain, as the green pastures fade away into the far horizons on both sides of the road. That’s a lot of wheat.The road stretches out into the distance, only 1500 kilometres approximately to Norseman.South Australia is the only state where we find that not only the caravan drivers wave to us as we pass, the cars do too.By three o’clock we are looking for a spot to pull off the road. We all jump out and gather ... read more

After breakfast we made our way back to Mt Gambier. We got the sat nav to take us to the shopping complex. When we arrived we found ourselves outside a laundrette and a pie shop - not exactly what I’d call a shopping complex. After looking round the other shops we had no luck finding a bike so set off again. We drove through the Coonawarra wine region which is miles of vines as far as the eye can see. Some of them produce many of the wines we would recognise at home., but since we were already carrying 5 litres of wine (well you have to be prepared!) we didn’t stop. We were heading for a free camp area called Poocher Swamp. It looked like a good bet in the book but when we arrived ... read more