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Coffin Bay, Eyre Peninsula
Dad and the kids out on the roadWe stayed at John’s place until 21
st and we had run out of water. He could only supply rainwater for drinking. Saturday night we went to stay at Port Lincoln Tourist Park for one night to top up with water and do some washing. The park is right on the foreshore of Proper Bay and we were on a site closest to the water, which was lovely. The park gave us a discount as I mentioned we were having work done by John Martin!
Sunday we returned to John’s place as he wanted to make a start on the van even though he had not got approval from the insurance people. I rang them on Monday to tell them we needed an urgent assessment approval on the quote. I was told 3 to 4weeks…… Not happy Jan. I managed to get them to see reason and the next afternoon we were given the OK.
Monday we moved to Port Lincoln Holiday Apartments and booked in for 7 nights. We got a one bedroom fully self-contained second storey apartment in the city with full kitchen but no washing machine. As the insurance people are
paying $100 a night we couldn’t complain.
During our time in Port Lincoln we spent one day exploring the nearby Lincoln National Park which has some lovely camping spots suitable for a caravan, some areas come with their own fire pit. The coastline is beautiful and we explored every bay, but didn’t do any of the many walks as too windy. The park is on a rugged peninsular with spectacular ocean views and sandy beaches. The park is covered in a large expanse of coastal mallee with granite outcrops and extensive sand dunes. The sheltered beaches of Boston Bay contrast with the exposed southern coastline, where steep limestone cliffs form an impressive buttress to the open Southern Ocean. Birds such a stints and sandpipers travel from as far as Siberia and the Arctic Circle to summer here. We saw numerous Cape Barron geese and an oystercatcher’s nest with two eggs on the beach. Danie got swooped by an angry gull as he got too close to two baby chicks swimming off the rocks! Brush-tailed Bettongs and Mallee fowl have been reintroduced in small number, into the park but we saw neither, just a few blue-tongue lizards.
Cape Donington
Chilli mussels
Made whilst we were in an apartment in Port Lincoln in the park has an early rural history that includes woodcutting, grazing and guano mining. There is a lighthouse on the Cape installed in 1905.
Matthew Flinders surveyed this coastline during his 1802 explorations. Dangerous waters at Cape Catastrophe claimed the lives of two officers and six crew who were sent to search for water in a small cutter. Flinders named offshore islands after these sailors and erected a memorial tablet in a sheltered bay which he named Memory Cove.
There is an obelisk atop Stamford Hill in the park in the memory of Matthew Flinders. Erected by his nephew Sir John Franklin, the then Governor of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in 1841. The building stone was brought from Tasmania and a team of bullocks and sledge were used to haul the materials to the site. The obelisk was restored and faced with marble in 1867.
The following day we went to find the local beach at Fishery Bay some 40kms from the town and set in the beautiful area of Sleaford Bay This beach is nearly a kilometre long and, as with all other beaches in South Australia, has vehicular access. South Australia is the only
state to allow vehicles on all beaches and they are regarded, for all intents and purposes, as roads.
There was a whaling station at Fishery Bay but nothing remains of it, established in 1837 but abandoned in1841.
On Saturday we went for a drive north inland to Cummins. Named after William Patrick Cummins, a member of the South Australian House of Assembly the town was settled in 1904. The town is an important agricultural hub on the Tod Highway; the major industries are cereal growing and sheep farming. The Cummins Milling Company is the only flour mill on the Eyre Peninsular , producing bread flour and stock feed.
From here we went east to the Spencer Gulf and Tumby Bay looking for Cornish pasties and South Australian Kitchener buns, but the bakery was closed!!!
Early settlers arrived in 1840s and farmed the area, the town soon grew into an important grain storage and loading point, with a jetty constructed in 1874, only the second to be built on the Eyre Peninsular. This provided a much needed outlet for the copper ore coming from the Burrowing Mine. There is a large caravan park and the small town
looks like a nice little holiday place. We drove round and found a sign outside a house offering honey for sale so I went there and was invited inside. We were looking for raw honey, not processed honey and got 500gms for $8 which I thought was a bargain, it is lovely to taste too. We then took some back roads back to Port Lincoln along a really pretty coastal route. We called in to North Shields, a very small coastal suburb with not much to offer except a fishing jetty. Approaching Port Lincoln from the north the road passed through what must be the millionaire’s suburb with some lovely homes overlooking Boston Bay.
On Sunday we went for a long walk along the Esplanade and round the perimeter of the grain silos and back. Nothing much seems to happen around here on Sundays. We returned to the apartment to do a big cook up ready for collecting the van and heading north to Port Augusta tomorrow, fingers crossed.
28th November 2016 We took our time packing up and went to see if the van was ready…….no, still finishing touches to do and they would be an
hour or so. Eventually we were hitched up everything packed away and we were off on the next leg of our journey, getting to Adelaide to meet with friends on Saturday.
The east coast of the Eyre Peninsular is not as nice as the west coast. The harvest is in full swing and lots of grain trucks on the road. The weather was good with the ever-present wind but we made good time and the first place of interest was Cowell, about half way to Port Augusta and on Franklin Harbour. We walked the mangrove boardwalk and bought yellowfin whiting and chips to share for lunch and a pot of homemade smoked whiting pate to eat later.
Franklin harbour is a natural 49km square harbour with an entrance only 100 metres wide. When settlers commenced farming in 1853 Fraklin Harbour became the logical place to load wheat and wool and a small settlement was soon established. Cowell was named after Sir John Clayton Cowell the then Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle.In 1965 a deposit of jade was discovered in the nearby Minbrie Ranges.
After lunch we carried onup the coast on the Lincoln Highway bypassing Whyalla, the third
biggest town in South Australia and known as “Steel City” due to its integrated steelworks and shipbuilding heritage. The port of Whyalla has been exporting iron ore since 1903.
It was founded as Hummock Hills in 1901 by BHP Billiton as the end of the tramway bringing iron or from Iron Knob and Middleback Range to sea. Its first shipment was transported across Spencer Gulf to Port Pirie where it was used in the lead smelter as flux.. Later the iron ore was shipped to Newcastle, New South Wales steelworks.
A shipyard was built to provide ships for the Royal Navy during W.W. II. In 1941the first ship, HMAS Whyalla was launched and the blast furnaces became operational. In 1958 a steelworks was built and salt harvesting began and coking ovens were built. In 2000 BHP long products was divested to form OneSteel which is the sole producer of rail steel and sleepers in Australia. OneSteel is now called Arrium.
We decided to free camp at the junction of the Lincoln and Eyre highways in a large area. It was a little noisy with the trucks but perfectly fine, we were one of three vehicles there.
29th November 2016 The batteries were not charging properly in the van, they were nearly 5 years old so were due to be replaced so we went in to find out what was the problem. We had to also sort out the van tyres.
Port Augusta was named after Augusta Sophia, Lady Young, the wife of the Governor of South Australia in 1852. It is known as the crossroads of Australia as the north south Sturt Highway and the west- east Eyre highway starts here. Also the Ghan railway from Adelaide to Darwin and the Sydney to Perth Indian Pacific railway goes through the town.
We went to get the tyre puncture repaired and were told we had the wrong tyres on the van…… after nearly nine years now I find out. We ordered four to be fitted on Monday.
We had booked two nights in the Flinders Ranges at Rawnsley Park Station, at their caravan park as we wanted to see the area. We left Port Augusta and went inland to the station. Rawnsley Park is a 30,000 acres working sheep station with various types of accommodation near Wilpena Pound and there were about 20
Coffin Bay, Eyre Peninsula
Best seafood platter to share vans there during our stay. The caravan park has a great view of Rawnsley Bluff, which forms part of Wilpena Pound, a natural amphitheatre in the Flinders Ranges National Park.
We followed the restored Pichi Richi narrow gauge railway, 39kms to Quorn, a very winding road through the hills passing many abandoned town sites. The railway was built in 1878 and this remaining stretch formed part of the old Ghan railway.
The tiny town of Quorn, named after Quorndon in Leicestershire. In 1917 Quorn became the crossroads of any north-south (to Oodnadatta) and east-west travel in Australia when the Trans-Australian Railway was completed between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie
The importance of Quorn to the railway system was lost when standard gauge rail tracks were laid. However during World War II Quorn was a vital service point for trains heading north to Alice Springs and carried over 1,000,000 troops heading to Darwin and Papua New Guinea. Trains passing through Quorn peaked at over 50 a day during and after the war.
Onwards to Hawker which was once a thriving railway town until the Ghan was upgraded and the track moved further west. The Flinders Ranges are extremely
pretty and well worth the detour. The roads eventually turn into ungraded tracks and not suitable for the van. We left the van at the caravan park and did two tours around the various gorges in the area and we were most impressed - Brachina Gorge and Bunyeroo. We failed to see any Yellow-footed Rock wallabies even though this area has the highest population in Australia!!!
The Flinders Ranges have been referred to as the ‘cradle of life’ and are the home to the ‘golden spike’ of the Eriacaran Period, which is the first geographical time period to be declared in the Southern Hemisphere.
30th November 2016 Today we went up to Blinman, the highest town in South Australia and the farthest you can go north on the bitumen. Blinman is an old copper town with very little left except a pub and a few houses, some made from native pine poles. Robert Blinman, a shepherd at the Angorichina station, a 3,108km square property which, in 1920 carried 38,000 sheep, discovered copper in 1859. In 1862 he and three other leaseholders of the copper mine sold it for over 150 times the price they paid for the
lease.
The town was laid out in 1868 and named Blinman, the ore ran out in 1918 when the town had a population of 2000.
We had coffee at the old hotel before going off exploring the Glass Gorge scenic route. It was just out of Blinman that we encountered a herd of camels, the first of the trip. The road was so picturesque and most of the time actually followed the river bed, making it quite a rough ride with several water holes to cross. We came out on the Leigh Creek Road near Parachilna where we were booked for lunch at the famous Prairie Hotel. This is about all that is left of the town which lies on the Port Augusta to Leigh Creek railway line and is surrounded by Mern Merna station a 290,00 sheep, cattle and horse property owned by the Fels family and it has been in the family since 1886 over 5 generations.
The Prairie Hotel is a grand old limestone and sandstone building and is famous for its’ ‘feral feast’ – this being the reason we booked for lunch. Camel mettwurst and camel sausage; goat and goat cheese
Slab Hut in Flinders Ranges
Made from local native pine trees and feral pork form a feral platter, along with kangaroo and emu which are not feral. This was followed by quandong crumble. A lovely treat which we both enjoyed.
Whilst we were there we were joined by a tour group from Rawnsley Station who had come for lunch as part of their tour of the area.
The caravan park was quite busy and we were next to a couple in a big bus from Perth.
1st December 2016 We left The Flinders Ranges and went back to Port Augusta where we replace four caravan tyres and the battery charger in the van. Stayed at the Big 4 caravan park where we got a good discount as we booked ahead. We walked around town as we had to wait for the charger to be replaced, nothing too exciting there.
2nd December 2016 Today we drove to Adelaide 342kms taking in part of the Yorke Peninsular situated between the Spencer Gulf to the west and Gulf St Vincent (named after Admiral John Jervis, 1
st Earl of St Vincent) to the east. Water from Gulf St Vincent supplies Adelaide metropolitan area with water via a desalination plant
in Lonsdale. We stopped for coffee at Port Wakefield. Formerly Port Henry and the first government town established north of Adelaide and at the head of Gulf St Vincent on the Wakefield River.
We found the Adelaide Shores caravan park pretty easily as the roads are in a grid system and easy to follow. The huge park with 360 powered sites plus lots of other accommodation is the largest in South Australia and not to our liking at all. We did, however get a great deal…. again, at $33 a night. The reason we stayed here was to meet up with South African friends of Danie who had come over from Melbourne for a Tai Kwando tournament for the two girls. They and their group were staying in cabins at the park. One of whom became Adelaide champion in her weight class. We met up with them for a BBQ that night.
3rd December 2016 Today we took the tram into the city from Glenelg, 9kms from Adelaide, a very pretty beachside suburb located on the shores of Holdfast Bay in Gulf St Vincent. Established in 1836 it is the oldest mainland settlement in South Australia, named
after Lord Glenelg (note the name is a palindrome). The oldest settlement is Kingscote on Kangaroo Island.
The Glenelg tram is Adelaide’s only remaining tramway and we got off at the Central Markets where we had a look round bought some cheese and local olives and had lunch at a very nice Italian café. The chees stall was amazing and even had some of my local Wensleydale cheese (far too expensive to think of buying).
We took the tram to the terminus in Hindmarsh and then back to Glenelg.
That night we invited to join the Tai Kwando team for dinner at a local restaurant.
Adelaide is the fifth most populous capital city with 1.31 million in 2002. The state only has 1.7 million people. More thn 75%!o(MISSING)f the State’s population live in greater Adelaide. The city was named after Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV. The city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province and is on the River Torrens. It has been known as the ‘City of Churches’ since mid-19
th century and was laid out by Colonel William Light.
Adelaide was planned colony
of free immigrants promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement whilst in prison for attempting to abduct an heiress.
4th December 2016 Today we spent a lazy day and took a walk along the coast.
5th December 2016 We left the park early for a drive to Murray Bridge (95kms) and stayed at the showgrounds for two nights with power and water for $10 a night. Whilst there we met a couple who told us about an amazing free camp, which we went to next.
Murray Bridge (formerly Mobilong and Edwards Crossing) is situated on the Princes Highway linking Adelaide and Melbourne and is a service centre for the local farming community, which includes, pigs, chickens, cereal crops and vegetables.
The bridge was built in 1879 and was the first across the Murray River. This was our first sight of the Murray River on this trip. The river is flooding in places due to heavy rain in Queensland and Victoria and is looking beautiful.
6th December 2016 We left the van and drove down to Victor
Harbour on the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsular (named after Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, the explorer and hydrographer).
This is a big tourist destination and is known as ‘God’s Waiting Room’ as many Adelaide retirees come to live here to escape the summer heat. In 1837 Richard Crozier, who was en route from Sydney to the Swan Colony (Western Australia) in command of the HMS Victor, anchored off Granite Island and named the sheltered waters after his ship. About the same time two whaling stations were established and whale oil became South Australia’s first export. The t whale was caught off Port Victor in 1872. The town’s name was changed to Victor Harbour in 1921.
Granite Island is accessible either on foot or by catching an antique horse-drawn tram ($9)
We stopped at the famous bakery in Port Elliot located on the very pretty Horseshoe Bay off the larger Encounter Bay. This whole area is obviously a summer vacation destination and will be very busy in the holidays.
We also visited Goolwa (elbow, in local Aboriginal language), an historic river port near the Murray Mouth and joined by a bridge to Hindmarsh Island. It
was Australia’s first inland port.
The Murray River flows into Lake Alexandrina (this and the smaller Lake Albert, which is connected by a small channel, are known as the Lower Lakes), several smaller rivers flow into the lakes and out to sea via the Murray Mouth. 95%!o(MISSING)f the time the lakes are fresh water.
We came home via the Langhorne Creek wine region where there are around 24 wineries. We managed a little wine tasting and bought several bottles. We also bought local chilli and ginger paste and horseradish and chilli dip.
7th to 14th December 2016 We left Murray Bridge Showgrounds heading for the Tenbury-Hunter Reserve, a free camp on the opposite bank of the Murray River to Swan Reach. Our best free camp so far with dump point, flush toilets and fire pits. We stayed here seven nights.
From Murray bridge we followed the river up to Mannum only 84 kms east of Adelaide. We travelled only 124kms today.
The first ship, a side-wheeled paddle steamer, built on the Murray River was launched at Mannum by William Randall in 1852.
The largest ship operating on the Murray is the PS
Murray Princess, which we saw on our first afternoon at Swan Reach. She is a stern–wheel paddle boat based at Mannum offering weekly cruises. Mannum is also a base for houseboats available for hire as Mannum has the best cruising waters on the river..
Because of its position on the Murray River, in 1954 the Mannum Adelaide pipeline was built to help supply Adelaide with a reliable water supply.
We crossed the river by ferry – our first ever river crossing, which was pretty exciting On to Swan Reach on the east bank of the Murray River, taking the cable ferry across to the free camp area. These ferries form part of the road system and are open 24/7 and are free.
Before going any further I must make mention of the power poles in South Australia. These are two steel joists held apart by a slab of concrete and are called stobies after their inventor in 1924 – James Stobie, an inventor. There were no long straight termite resistant poles in the state but these poles are only seen in South Australia.
Anyway back to the story – Swan Reach was first settled in the
1850s and was originally the largest of five sheep and cattle stations in the region. It soon became one of the first riverboat ports in South Australia and was a loading port for grain and wool.
The tourist boat Proud Mary and the paddle wheeler PS Murray Princess stop at the town once a week.
There were huge floods in the region in 1917 and 1931 with the most devastating occurring in 1956 seeing most of the businesses in the main street washed away.
Here the river is sheltered by high cliffs and water birds are abundant here particularly in the billabongs and backwaters fed by the river. The area is a rich source of fossils, flora and fauna and is up to 20 million years old, the majestic cliffs being formed from the seabed laid down tens of thousands of years ago.
The Swan Reach hotel is unique in that it was not purpose built but was the old Swan Reach homestead which was built in 1865.
When we got to the free camp area we got a great spot on the river bank and there were only two other
vans there.
The following day we went to Renmark, Berri, Barmera Waikerie and Blanchetown to look around the area.
Renmark, the town transformed by Australia’s first irrigation scheme: The Renmark hotel was the first community owned hotel in the British Empire. The area has similar growing conditions to that in California and has several vineyards and orchards in the area.
The process of packaging cask wine was invented by Thomas Angove of Angove’s, a winemaker from Renmark. Patented by the company in 1935
Berri : Did some wine tasting at the Berri winery. The name is derived from the Aboriginal ‘bery bery’ or bend in the river and is the original home of the Berri Juice Company. It is surrounded by mallee like Renmark and owes its agriculture and viticulture to the use of extensive irrigation.
Barmera: The town is on the shores of Lake Bonney and a big place for all sorts of water sports
Waikerie : Well known for citrus growing and gliding as the flat dry terrain provides good thermals. Waikerie hosted the 14th World Gliding Championships in 1974
All these towns form part of the Riverlands district of South
Australia.
The next five days we spent on the banks of the river fishing, looking round the little town and relaxing. We met a couple from Bridgetown, WA who were till at the camp when we left. I rang the local police to check if we could have a fire we were told as long as it was contained and it was not a total fire-ban day we were fine. Therefore we had a fire on three nights and were able to B.B.Q which is our favourite form of cooking. – never gas though, always wood fire or charcoal.
Plenty of fish were caught but only two were edible – Golden Perch, all the rest were carp which must be killed as it is illegal to throw them back into the river. The council provide bags for the dead fish and plenty of rubbish bins.
15th – 19th December 2016 We said goodbye to Helen and Roy from Bridgetown who were staying on at the free camp and Trevor who had come to the camp yesterday for a few days by himself as his wife had gone to Adelaide. He was from Lake Clifton near Perth
and turned out he was related to Roys sister in law! Very small world out on the road.
We travelled the 31kms to Blanchetown and the Big4 caravan park and were here for 5 days as they had a deal of $20 a day for 5 days (usually $39 a day). We wanted power and to fill up with water. The caravan park was right on the river so more fishing. We had the whole place to ourselves for two days and then five more vans arrived, not that anyone spoke to us and the two couples next door were so sour faced and unfriendly. This often happens in caravan parks as people just don’t seem to mix unless you are very lucky. We got settled then drove to Waikerie to do some grocery shopping – the nearest town of any size.
We came back via Morgan and Cadell (home to a low security men’s prison. In its heyday Morgan was one of the busiest ports on the river, it lies on an immense bend where the river turns south to the sea and named after Sir William Morgan in 1878. Sir William later became premier of South
Australia. Today Morgan is well known for its number of houseboat moorings and services. A houseboat marina is currently under construction. There is a ferry service here too. There are twelve ferry services in South Australia across the Murray River.
There are many holiday shacks built along the river in Blanchetown which is home to Lock One. The small township was an important transportation centre on the lower Murray in the 19
th century. Blanchetown is widely regarded as the entrance to the Riverland district.
Blanchetown was named after Lady Blanche MacDonnell the wife of the Governor of South Australia in 1855. Land above the cliffs on the west bank is used mainly for sheep grazing while land on the irrigated east bank is used for citrus orchards.
Lock One (William Randell Lock) was the first of thirteen locks and weirs built on the Murray and was completed in 1922. The original purpose was to facilitate navigation for trade along the Murray, but by the time the weirs were completed trade was declining. The primary purposes now are for recreational boating and to maintain water levels for irrigation. The pool upstream of the weir is 3.6 metres above
sea level and 274kms from Murray Mouth. The lock chamber is 17 x 83 metres.
A bridge was constructed at Blanchetown in 1963 but was not structurally sound enough for heavy vehicles and a new bridge was completed in 1998.
We spent a lovely four days relaxing by the river, fishing and walking to the Lock One and one day we went wine tasting to the Barossa Valley (183km round trip).
First stop was Nurioopta which is situated at the north end of the Barossa Valley, the largest town in the area and home to Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Kaester Wines and Elderton. In 1950the Australian Grand Prix was staged here using roads in and around the town.
Penfolds was founded in Adelaide in 1844 by William Rawson Penfold, an English physician who emigrated with his wife Mary. It is one of Australia’s oldest wineries and is currently part of Treasury Wine Estates.
Next we went to Tanunda (Water Hole). The first settlement in the vicinity was the village of Bethanien, settled in 1842 by immigrants form Prussian Silesia. Tanunda is the most German of the towns in the Valley.
Tanunda and the Barossa Valley
comprise one of Australia’s premier wine-growing regions and the town is surrounded by vineyards. One such vineyard at Turkey Flat is home to Shiraz vines that were planted in 1847 and are believed to be the world’s oldest continually producing commercial vineyard.
In Angaston we went to the Farmers Market to stock up on some wonderful local produce. We bought 10kgs of oranges for $10, Jersey butter, kangaroo mettwurst, local bacon from rare breed of pig. Venison mince, and we feasted on samples of cherries, breads, smoked ham and bacon, raspberry jam and bought local veggies. Such a treat!
Angaston is a British town, Cornish miners came here and it was named after George Fife Angas who settled the area in the 1850s
Yalumba winery is probably the best known winery in this area. It was founded by a British brewer Samuel Smith, who emigrated with his family from Wareham, Dorset. With his son Sidney he planted Yalumba;s first vineyards on his 30 acre block. Today Yalumba is Australia’s oldest family-owned winery.
We went to Rowlands Flat to Jacobs Creek Winery where we were very impressed with their visitors centre and to find out that there
are cork trees planted on the estate. Jacobs Creek was founded by German Johann Gramp who named the winery after plantinghis first grape vines on the banks of Jacobs Creek. The winery now produces some of Australia’s most successful export wines, exporting to 80 countries and having the leading brand in the UK, New Zealand and Asia. It is now owned by Orlando Wines who in turn were bought by Pernod Ricard in 1989.
The Barossa and Eden Valleys are very pretty and we visited when everywhere was green vines as far as the eye could see. We could see that in season the area would be very touristy but we thoroughly enjoyed a quiet, peaceful place with some fabulous wines.
19th December 2016 Today we had a big day travelling 31kms back to Swan Reach where we met up with Helen and Roy who were still there and met Paul and Barb in their fifth wheeler from Rockhampton, Queensland. We wanted a fire but the wind had got up so not happening.
A family had parked up two caravans and three camper trailers, leaving them empty until Xmas afternoon when 60 people will be here.
We felt that it should be first come best dressed and people should not take the best spots. Luckily the people who were in our original spot were packing up and we got it back.
20th December 2016 Roy and Helen left for Waikerie where Helens parents live. We went to Murray Bridge to do a big grocery shop. When we returned Paul and Hazel, permanents on the road were parked behind us in their motor home. He was from Manchester and she was from Liverpool, 45 years ago. They later came over and we had an interesting Happy Hour with them and Paul and Barb. Sadly there was no fire again tonight. Stories, hints and tips were exchanged and we have several places on our must see list now, including Tasmania which, we were told, is completely doable with our rig. We thought it might be too big, hence expensive on the ferry, but free camping everywhere on the island helps.
21st December 2016 Saw the Proud Mary again this morning and spending a quiet day finishing this and Danie is fishing. He got the ferry across to Swan Reach and walked up
the hill to the Op Shop, a must-see here and got himself a pair of brand news mart shorts for $2 so he came back a very happy chappy.
Tomorrow we leave for a return to Blanchetown to meet up with Paul and Barb at the Big4. (They left today on our recommendation). We will spend Xmas there and have power for the air con as it is forecast 40 degrees for Xmas Day, also we can cook up a storm. We were told if the weather is OK we can have a fire at the caravan park as long as it isn’t on the ground. As we use our converted gas bottle as a fire pot this will not be a problem, hoping for cooler weather and a drop in the wind.
We are here for another five days as we got a deal again, bit more pricey as it is Xmas but still only $30 a night compared with normal $49 over Xmas and holidays..
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