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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We are about to head off on a driving trip to South Australia. Whilst we have done a few short local trips over recent months, this will be our first serious trip away since Covid-19 broke out fifteen months ago. We heading to the Flinders Ranges in the middle of South Australia – an area…
There are only a few places to stay in Peterborough, South Australia, but I cannot recommend the Roundhouse Motel. This place has just cancelled my booking. I booked a room around six months ago as part of a well planned trip to the Flinders Ranges. Just six days ahead of our stay, they called me…
Today, we finally made it to the Southern section of the Flinders Ranges. This series of mountains form the biggest mountains in South Australia and were named in honour of Mathew Flinders (by some of his party). He was the first man to circumnavigate Australia in 1802. The first settlers arrived here in 1845. We planned to…
We finished our Proud Mary river boat trip last Friday, but not before we visited the tiny town of Mypolonga. This little settlement on the bank of the lower Murray River. has a population of only about 300 people. It was surveyed in 1915 and its name comes from an Aboriginal name meaning Cliff Lookout…
Our boat had moved a few kilometres upstream from where we joined it at Murray Bridge and on this our first day on the river we awoke to find ourselves moored by a nice quiet park at Woodlane. I’m a bit surprised at just how many timy settlements there are along the river. Some were…
The area west of Horsham is flat and not particularly photogenic. Once you leave the Grampians behind, there are no outstanding natural features to break the relatively flat landscape. As I drove towards the South Australian border, it was clear that this is a broad-acre grain farming and sheep area. At the moment, newly sown…
We enjoyed our day traveling from Broken Hill and the time seemed to go quickly. The country side changed along the way from arid salt bush country near Broken Hill to green grass around the pastoral area of Peterborough and extensive market gardens just north of Adelaide. Just before arriving in Adelaide, we stopped in…