One Small Lap
There seems to be a hell of a lot of ports in this place. We pack up and leave the van park.
There is this “Attraction” at the local visitors centre in Port Augusta. It’s called the “tunnel of time”. Part museum, part AV display. Some people we know might call it “big history”, trying to tell the story of this region from Gondwana though to current times in a walk of a few hundred metres.
Continue reading “Day 125 – Port Augusta to Port Broughton”
The suns up and light is coming onto the van a little earlier than I would have liked. The waves have been noisier here than at many of the other beach camps we’ve been in. Not an unpleasant sound, but somewhat unexpected.
Continue reading “Day 124 – Port Gibbon to Port Augusta”
We’re in the process of packing up, and we see a splash in the water, a fish. It might have been, but if it was, it was beening chased by a couple of dolphins. The kids are excited for at least a few seconds, but a tree they’ve been climbing for the last few days keeps their attention.
Continue reading “Day 123 – Port Lincoln National Park to Port Gibbon”
After a lazy start to the morning, we all get organised, and take off to visit some of the sites of the National Park. We drive back to the start of the park to see Wanna Lookout, it’s blowing a gale, but it’s a great spot.
Continue reading “Day 122 – Port Lincoln National Park”
We drive into town, I drop the family off at the local park and drive over to the car service centre. The 40,000km is a big one and they say they’ll need the car for 5 hrs. Our Sydney friends are over in the national park, and it would have been good to camp with them overnight, but we’re not sure if that’s possible.
Continue reading “Day 121 – Port Lincoln to Port Lincoln National Park”
A beautiful morning, still windy, but not strong gusts. The tides out and the water is a lot calmer than the washing machine it was yesterday.
We take a morning walk out on the rocks.
Caitlin has a slightly better night, so we think the fever has basically broken, so we’ll head off today.
We have 400km over the next two days to do so we can be in Port Lincoln on Thursday afternoon. I’ve found a couple of campsites that look good. Our first world trouble is one is about 100km from Ceduna, the other is about 100km from Port Lincoln. So a either a bigger drive today or tomorrow.
Continue reading “Day 119 – Ceduna to Streaky Bay”
Overnight Caitlin has come down with a high fever. Neurophen is keeping it under control but it is pretty high.
This morning her fever is still high, and she doesn’t feel well. We had planned on moving down the coast today, but there is no imperative. So we book in for another night.
Continue reading “Day 118 – Ceduna”
Up again lateish, it’s overcast so it is the coolest we’ve been for ages. We start the final push east and we aim for Ceduna.
A quick stop at the SA quarantine station to donate some fruit and veg, then on into town (to buy the same fruit and veg back).
Continue reading “Day 117 – Ambrosia to Ceduna”
With the 2.5 hr time change, we officially wake up very late. What a great night’s sleep, even with the trucks not that far away it is so peaceful.
Continue reading “Day 116 – Bight to Ambrosia”