Day 6 Friday 16/8/2024 Rawnsley Park, 9-16 cool windy The rain arrived as forecasted and we had a welcome 6mm overnight. Forgetting that we didn’t have the awning out, I left my shoes outside and they’ve had a thoroughly good … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Bunyeroo Where Are You?
Day 5 Thursday 15/8/2024 Peterborough to Rawnsley Park, 25 It was a quiet, dark night. Of course, it’s always dark when we aren’t hooked up to power and we don’t have the light of the two green dots on the … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Rawnsley Park
Day 4 Wednesday 14/8/2024 Moorook to Peterborough, 24.5 It wasn’t at all cold last night and we wake to a glorious morning with the rising sun peeking through the trees. The Murray is calm and the pelicans are swimming. Purple … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Ants in our pants
Day 3 Tuesday 13/8/2024 Hopetoun, Vic to Moorook, SA, 24 degrees It’s another clear bright morning. I drag on some warm clothes and gallop outside to catch the warm glow of sunrise, but I miss it. Geez, I’m out of … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Mooching about at Moorook
Day 2 Monday 12/8/2024 Charlton to Hopetoun 20 degrees It was a chilly night, but we slept well, with a hot water bottle and two doonas. A freight train went through in the wee hours, but I barely heard it. … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – A Bachelor’s Handbag & Snot Blocks
Charlton, Vic Day 1 Sunday 11/8/2024, Melbourne to Charlton, crisp and clear 14 – 18 It’s hard to get our heads around packing and hitching up. It’s been a long break between trips, and we have left many loose ends … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Phew, on the road again
Mannum, SA Mannum is all one could hope for in a South Australian river town. Stone buildings, paddle steamers, house boats and the wide Murray River, it’s easy to imagine how busy this town would have been in earlier times. Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Mannum
Dimboola, Vic How could you not be captivated by a country town that is so quirky that it builds a park in honour of a lost pub? Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Sketches of Dimboola
Day 14 Thursday 16/5/2024 Horsham, warm 21 Making the most of the weather we both spend the day walking and I get a few sketches done down by the river. While we’re puddling about the Cardiology folk ring. Lucky we’re … Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Do you want the chops as well?
Day 13 Wednesday 15/5/2024 Dimboola to Horsham, sunny It’s a very, very short drive to Horsham. Checking into the Horsham Riverside Caravan Park 11 minutes before the check in time of 10:00am the lady behind the desk is not happy. … Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Horsham
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