Monday, 18 August 2025 This morning, we re-packed the truck and set the SatNav for Sharp’s Bakery in Birchip, on a mission to buy some of their award-winning vanilla slices. But, first we had to stop at the BP Servo on the way out of town to top up the tank. Tcht, it WAS a […]
Sunday, 17 August 2025 We made a lazy start to today with a leisurely breakfast in our room. Bernie read the newspaper on his iPad and I completed Friday’s quiz this morning. With a couple of early starts on Thursday and Friday, I was two days behind, so I was able to catch up yesterday
Saturday, 16 August 2025 It was a bit of a drag this morning, we had to make our own breakfast again. It’s so much easier to have breakfast included although, of course, you’re actually paying for it in your room tariff. So cheap and self-catered breakfast today. We were on the road just before 9.00am
Friday, 15 August 2025 Breakfast was included with our accommodation again this morning at the Prairie Hotel. We packed everything except our tooth brushes, before heading to the dining room at 8.00am. No continental breakfast smorgasbord here, we were able to order an a-la-carte breakfast from the menu. Fancy! Bernie chose the muesli and I
Thursday, 14 August 2025 We were on the road again today, but only travelling about 200 kilometres to Parachilna. Before heading off, Bernie topped up the truck with with Mogas diesel … eventually. There was some trouble with getting a staff member to ‘release the flow’ because Kosta was on reception, dealing with a booking
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 Today, Bernie let someone else do the four wheel driving when we took the Arkaroola 4WD Ridgetop Tour. This is not a track that you can drive yourself, the only way to experience it is to take the tour in one of their open-top 4WD vehicles with an experienced guide. The
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 Our package at Arkaroola includes a continental breakfast in the restaurant, so we headed down there at about 7.15am so that we could eat breakfast before our scenic flight today. With the All-Bran and Coco Pops containers right beside each other I chose the Coco Pops but made them healthy by
Monday, 11 August 2025 We were on the move again today heading north to Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges. As we drove up to Blinman we stopped at the geological feature known as the Great Wall of China. There is a ridge that has blocky stone atop it and it certainly does look like
Sunday, 10 August 2025 Today was a day of two halves. This morning the weather was magnificent, this afternoon not so much. Our four wheel driving started out an easy enough drive along the Willow Spring Station’s ‘Skytrek’ but, after our lunch stop, it was much more challenging. But, before I go into today’s 4WD
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Saturday, 9 August 2025 I thought I heard some rain overnight and this morning it looked very broody over towards Rawnsley Bluff. Looking slightly more towards the east it didn’t look as threatening though. Fingers crossed! We were on the move again today, so after breakfast we re-packed the truck before taking our key back