Thursday 31st March 2005, (Cobar).
Now at Cobar 450k from Broken Hill and the trip yesterday was one of the longest we have had in our entire travels. We had originally thought of stopping at Wilcannia, about half way, but we had heard so many negative stories about it in the near past that we had […]
Saturday 26th March. (Broken Hill).
A small town of Silverton 30k west was the order of visits today. This is now a ghost town after thriving for about 20 years back in the late 1800’s. There are very few houses left in the town, as most were transported to Broken Hill. What buildings are left do […]
Wednesday 23rd March 2005, (Broken Hill).
It was just as well we didn’t decide to come straight up to Broken Hill instead of stopping at Mildura, as it would have been just too long. It was an interesting trip today with the terrain different again. The land was not quite as flat as the Hay Plains, […]
Tuesday 22nd March. (Mildura).
We have moved to Mildura. We are only staying here overnight as we can’t get in anywhere in this area over Easter, so it is on to Broken Hill tomorrow. It was too far to go there today, and we had a little shopping to do before heading to there.
Monday 21st March. (Berri).
A fair bit of car racing on telly over the weekend filled in a bit of my time, but we did get to see some of the area, with a walk around town taking photos on Saturday, and Sunday being a usual rest day. We went to Renmark, and that district, for […]
Thursday 17th March 2005, (Berri).
A short trip today, about 60k, took us to Berri. All trips should be this short, but we can’t win them all.
We chose this location because it is central to several places in a triangle between Kingston-on the Murray, Renmark and Loxton.
The area looks as though it would have a lot […]
Chapter 30
Murray River and Inland.
Sunday 13th March 2005, (Waikerie).
Yesterday saw us leave Adelaide on our way to the Sunshine Coast via another section of the great Murray River, and outback NSW. We travelled about 150k to Waikerie on the highway to Mildura and it is the first of our stops on the Murray.
The temperatures in […]
Thursday 10th March. (Adelaide).
A trip to the Botanic Gardens emphasised the point that when doing things in Adelaide one should allow at least double the time one would think to see things. An hour and a half at the gardens was nowhere near enough time, as we could have spent ages there, or at least […]
Monday 7th March. (Adelaide).
We had another trip up the Adelaide Hills today, but to Mount lofty this time. I found a lookout that eluded me on our first trip here because it is not shown as such on my Adelaide map book. We were in the area to look at the Botanic Gardens and noticed […]
Thursday 3rd March. (Adelaide).
I have to take extra measures with the new internet kit as using it inside the caravan leaves the signal level a little low, the same problem I had when using the mobile. An outside aerial overcame the problem with the mobile, but this device does not have that option so mounting […]