Category Archives: South Australia

4th October to 8th October As is becoming a bit of a habit, we had a monumentous drive of about 22km to do today, out to a free camp called Perlubie Beach. I had heard about this free camp from the many blogs and research I have been doing over the years, so it wasContinue reading “Perlubie Beach, Ceduna and Fowlers Bay, South Australia.”

1st October to 4th October We left Venus Bay, arriving at Murphy’s Haystacks, where we got out to stretch our legs and explore. The tourism brochures highlight the haystacks as 1500 million year old geographical wonders. They were pretty cool too, we managed to take a few photos and walk around for a bit untilContinue reading “Streaky Bay and Baird Bay Ocean Eco Experience, South Australia.”

29th September to 1st October After we left Coffin Bay we headed north along the western side of the Eyre Peninsula, we had been told to definitely call into a town called Elliston, apparently they had the best vanilla slice and lemon tarts in South Australia. Now at the mere mention of lemon tart (forContinue reading “Venus Bay, South Australia.”

26th to 29th September We left a little later today, knowing that our drive was not going to take us long, well about 20 minutes to be exact and that was the scenic route as well!!!!! After our few nights in the caravan park to recharge the batteries, refill the water tanks and re stockContinue reading “Coffin Bay National Park, South Australia.”

24th September to 26th September After we left Port Lincoln we drove for at least a whole 40 minutes to reach our next destination, Coffin Bay caravan park. Coffin Bay, the town, was originally known as Oystertown, back in its day, before the oyster fisherman pretty much dredged the oyster to near extinction back inContinue reading “Coffin Bay, SA”

21st September to 24th September After a slow drive out of Memory Cove Wilderness Park we took a right turn away from Port Lincoln, which took us further into the Port Lincoln National Park and to another beach camp, September beach campground. This campground won the honours of our presence as you could have fires!!!! WeContinue reading “September Beach campground, Port Lincoln National Park”

15th September to 21st September We arrived in Port Lincoln just before lunch, checking out both the caravan parks, one in town and one about 12kms before town. Needless to say the prices were a bit rich at both but we had to choose one as we needed to fill water tanks, recharge electrical toys and wash aContinue reading “Port Lincoln National Park and Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area”

12th September to 15th September After yet another seamless, simple, easy, argument free pack up we were on our way, setting a course for due west. It was meant to be an uneventful crossing of the border, except as it was during the week, fruit and vege border patrol was open and in full flight!!!!Continue reading “Border patrol………”

11th May to 14th May After a fantastic weekend we left Oodnadatta on the Monday morning after restocking milk, bread, eggs and a few casks of fresh water. We were on the road by 10ish all set for a 250km drive on a minor dirt track that was meant to be worse than the Oodnadatta track.Continue reading “Mt Dare and Dalhousie Springs, South Australia”

7th May to 10th May And they’re off and racing!!! We had first stumbled upon the races flyer stuck to the front door of the Marree Hotel some 200km south and couldn’t believe our luck that we would be passing through at the same time. The weekend offered something for everyone, bar and catering facilities,Continue reading “The 125th Oodnadatta Race and Gymkhana, South Australia”

5th May to 8th May After finally beginning our ‘journey‘105 days ago back in Victoria, we headed out today agreeing that we were finally beginning our ‘adventure’!!!! We have explored a lot of Victoria and South Australia, travelling over 6,000kms, but today was the day we finally leave the black top and head into theContinue reading “The Oodnadatta Track, Marree to Oodnadatta, South Australia”

4th May to 5th May After a week we finally dragged ourselves away from Beltana Station, we made a quick stop in at Leigh Creek to pick up some final shopping supplies as we were not likely to see another supermarket for another 1200kms. After spending and buying more than what we had intended weContinue reading “Farina Ruins, South Australia”

27th April to 4th May We left our campsite in the Flinders Ranges and drove a staggering 45kms up the road to Beltana Station about 45km south of Leigh Creek. Beltana Station is a 460,000 acre working sheep and cattle station that offers travellers accommodation in shearers quarter, cottages, camping and caravan sites. They also have a restaurant,Continue reading “Beltana Homestead, South Australia”

21st April to 27th April After our stay at Mount Remarkable we headed to Port Augusta to restock our groceries, power up and work our way through 5 loads of washing. We stayed at the Big 4 caravan park, figuring it to be the safest park there, apparently it is even though the night weContinue reading “Flinders Ranges, South Australia”

16th  April to 21st April After a fairly short drive for us (180km) we arrived at Mambray Creek Campground in the Mount Remarkable National Park, situated half way between Port Pirie and Port Augusta. The national park is part of the southern Flinders Ranges and well set up for camping. Our campground had flushing toiletsContinue reading “Mount Remarkable National Park, South Australia”

13th April to 16th April After packing up during the rain we were on the road by 9:30, heading north to Moonta Bay Caravan Park, home for the next 3 days. After a slight traffic delay of a few hundred sheep,we arrived by lunchtime, ate lunch in the park, hunted unsuccessfully for a geocache, walkedContinue reading “Moonta Bay, South Australia.”

10th April to 13th April For the first time in over a week the sun finally came out today, just in time for us to pack up and leave Hahndorf!!! By the time we went and did a few jobs we finally got on the road north by 11am. We stopped for lunch at Ardrossan.Continue reading “The Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.”

2nd April to 10th April We arrived in Hahndorf a day early as a freezing cold front was due to come through the south with hail and thunderstorms, with temperatures expected to drop to 14C during the day. Although Hahndorf was only 100km north of Deep Creek we would at least have power to be ableContinue reading “Hahndorf and Adelaide.”

26th March to 1st April After having lunch at Tailem Bend we headed off to our next camp, Stringybark Campsite, located within the Deep Creek Conservation Park about 40km west of Victor Harbour. Luckily this park is included in our Multi parks and camping pass so it was another freebie, and it had hot showersContinue reading “The Fleurieu Peninsula”

  26th March to 31st March After 10 weeks we have finally arrived in South Australia or Naracoorte to be more accurate. We arrived at Naracoorte Caves National park about mid afternoon, purchased our multi parks and camping pass from the info centre and set up camp next to our travelling mates ‘The Leeds’. WeContinue reading “South Australia, finally……..”