Month: May 2021
We’ve Made it Back Home to Melbourne
This last day of our trip has been entirely unremarkable. We only stopped once during the day for a quick lunch. Little of the scenery that we passed was new to us. The weather forecast for the day was for cool temperatures and considerable rain. When we left the town of Horsham this morning it […]
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Back in Victoria – Horsham
It was a long driving day for us today – a bit over 450 kms as we continued our journey home from Port Lincoln. Tonight, we are in Horsham. Before leaving Tanunda in the Barossa Valley, we visited the farm shop of celebrity chef Maggie Beer and stocked up on some products that we could […]
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Towns and Their Fame
Travelling south from Port Augusta took us (again) through mile after mile of broad acre wheat farms. There is nothing of great interest apart from the towns that we visited along the way They were the highlight of our day as we drove south to the wine growing area of the Barossa Valley. Just south […]
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Back to Port Augusta
On this trip, we have travelled through a variety of regions and environments. We began in the Riverland, then moved on to an area of mountains and gorges in the Flinders Ranges. Then at Port Lincoln we found rugged coastlines. Today, this was all swapped for inland Australia with its distinct rural environment. Driving inland […]
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Coffin Bay
There was a brilliant sunrise over Boston Bay in Port Lincoln this morning and it inspired us to get up and get going even though we only had a quiet day planned. Our intention was to do the 40 minute drive across to the other side of the peninsular to Coffin Bay. When the words […]
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Port Lincoln and Whalers Way
After leaving Port Augusta yesterday, our route took us through some very uninteresting arid country as we drove south down the Eyre Peninsula to our most distant destination on this trip – Port Lincoln. I set the cruise control to 110 km nearly all the way and steered down this highway, stopping at just a […]
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We Have Made it to Port Augusta
Tonight, we are back in the big smoke, or at least as big as is Port Augusta at the head of the Spencer Gulf. It’s large enough to have at least two supermarkets and a car wash – the largest town we have seen in five days. Last night, our final one in the Flinders […]
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The End of a Friend
Blinman is the furthest north point on this trio and we reached there in time for lunch. Our route then took us trough the Parachilna Gorge and then back to Hawker on the main highway. After leaving Rawnsley Park Station, heading north, we crossed the Arkaba Creek. This is one off hundreds of streams in […]
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Exploring The Flinders Ranges
We spent the day driving along some interesting and challenging roads today as we went sight seeing. With Jill’s current level of mobility, it’s not easy for us to walk very far, so driving is our best option. There are many stunning lookouts across these Ranges and we stopped at everyone along the roads that […]
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We Have Reached the Flinders Ranges
This area of Australia has an enormous amount of diverse history. Burra, where we stayed last night, was an important copper mining region and further north is another little town – Terowie which is now a virtual ghost town with only 160 people. However, in WW2 it was a bustling centre of activity. It was […]
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Burra
Before leaving Mildura, we had a superb meal at Stefano’s Restaurant in the basement of the Grand Hotel. For Jill to get down to the basement, it meant riding down in the service lift through the kitchen. But the effort was worth while with the five-course meal being a gastronomic delight. There was no menu […]
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A Day in, and Around, Mildura
After getting up a little later today, we drove from our motel down to the river for another ride on a Murray River paddle boat. The story of the river that we heard was very similar to the one that we heard on the boat a few days ago in Echuca. (After all, it is […]
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