We went from Darwin to Alice springs, Ayers rock, Kings Canyon etc, then back to Alice Springs where we left Dave and flew to Adelaide. (He drove on to Birdsville for the races and met us there later.)
After a few weeks in Adelaide, we then took off where we left off and travelled to the flinders Ranges, and The Eyre Peninsula. This is a letter I have just written to my family and will tell you of our recent adventures up until now! Enjoy...
We arrived at Port Broughton
Caravan Park yesterday afternoon. This is where all the school kids have been
hiding all this time. For school holidays, we hadn’t come across many. So kids
are lapping it up.
We just spent most of a week,
bush camping at Fitzgerald Bay, just out of Whyalla. What a place, absolutely
amazing. Right on the water, Dolphins nearly every day. Not much fishing, a few
squid and a whiting, but it was nice.
So we have done the Eyre
Peninsula, and are now starting the Yorke Peninsula. How hot was it yesterday.
We are so accustomed to the crazy, windy, cold weather, that yesterday was a
shock to the system. The kids even went for a swim here, which is great, they
need some exercise. Jack has got the podgy look again, a pot belly and they don’t
look like the olive brown North Qldsrs, they were a few months ago. We are
heading off for a big walk into town shortly.
Jack got a bad cut on his
foot after Dave dropped a rock on it while they were collecting razor fish at
Fitz. Bay. It looked like it shoould’ve been stitched, but luckily we are armed
with a good first aid kit and it is healing well. But…how do you tell a boy,
not to jump around on it, especially when there’s a jumping pillow here.
We’ve had a few funny mishaps
and some not so funny, but it’s all part of the adventure.
In the flinders Ranges, Dave
lost his towel, when it caught fire on the clothes line, will explain this
another time. So we were on the hunt for a new towel when we got to the next
town, which we got. Then a few nights later, we left the other 3 towels on the
clothes line at Coffin Bay and took off none the wiser. So then we had to buy 3
more towels in Port Lincoln.
While in coffin Bay, we tried
to do some bush camping in the national Park and normally, very 4wd savvy, but
we were towing the camper trailer through very soft sand and got nicely bogged.
You know how much Dave loves being the centre of attention…NOT! Of course
people had to pull up behind us and wait for us to get out. They were very friendly
and very helpful though!!! So we got out of that with his pride still in tact
and decided to go back and stay at the caravan park instead.
My fantastic, brand new
Samsung Galaxy Phone now has a huge big crack on the screen. Dave tickled
Taylah while she was using It and it got dropped and cracked. Let’s just say, I
had to walk away from that one for awhile to cool down. I’m going to start nick
naming my husband, Doctor Damage. (The phone still works and it has been great
for travelling, using the internet to find out weather conditions, taking pics
and checking my emails on it, very versatile!) (Oh and also checking into
facebook every once in awhile.)
We think we have about 2
weeks to go, if we can stretch the money out that long. We are going to have to
be very careful with our budget now, as we are on the last of it. Dave will
have to speak with matrix sometime next week and sort some things out. He has
been looking on the net for jobs and putting his feelers out. I will have to
start thinking about school for kids and a job for me too! Here we go again,
Deja Vous. Feel like I’ve gone through this routine a few times!!!!! Wouldn’t
it be great if we could just keep travelling and not worry about any of this.
Anyway, it’s weird, we have
to remind ourselves sometimes that we are in South Australia! We could be
anywhere really, with the amount of places we’ve seen. But I have to say, there
are some very beautiful places along this stretch of the country. Places I know
I’ve been to as a kid, and places I haven’t. We really loved Cowell. We stayed
there a few nights and it was so cool. They had the town market on and some
other craft shops and we got all sorts of goodies that day. All the local
produce was yummy.
