Friday, 8 August 2025 The weather is still treating us well. Not as clear as Tuesday and Wednesday but less cloudy than yesterday which is good. Always lovely to have some blue sky for our photos. An easier day today driving through the gorges. We set out north along the Flinders Ranges Way. Today we […]
Thursday, 7 August 2025 This morning it was a little cloudier than the last couple of days but still fine. After letting the truck do all the work yesterday, today a hike was planned. Bernie wanted to do the hike up Rawnsley Bluff. I questioned the fact that it is rated DIFFICULT and at 12.6
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Wednesday, 6 August 2025 Another glorious day in the Flinders Ranges. How lucky are we? Thank goodness we didn’t holiday over this way a week or so ago when it was extremely wet and roads were closed. This morning after breakfast we drove over to the office to find out if the red section of
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 This morning was a perfect day to be in the Flinders Ranges with a cerulean blue sky and sun, sun, sun. Absolutely beautiful. We made ourselves some breakfast then drove to Wilpena Pound, where we parked the truck at the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park Visitor Centre. Bernie had already purchased our
Monday, 4 August 2025 Surprisingly, after a good night’s sleep, it was the alarm that woke us and not the sulfur-crested cockatoos. The first birds I was aware of was a mischief of magpies carolling in the trees around the tents. I have just learnt that there are many collective nouns for a group of
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Sunday, 3 August 2025 After our night in Adelaide City we packed up again to start heading north today towards our ultimate destination for this holiday, the Flinders Ranges. But first we had time to meet up with Meredith and Greg again for breakfast. Their favourite breakfast spot, Diaspora Kouzina, is located just a few
Saturday, 2 August 2025 We were on the road again today, re-packing the truck and departing Dunkeld by 9.30am with the SatNav set for the TRYP Hotel in Adelaide. On the whole it was lucky that we spent yesterday in Dunkeld climbing to the summit of Mount Sturgeon because this morning the cloud was taking
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Friday, 1 August 2025 Off on our third holiday for the year, this time on a road trip to the Flinders Ranges. We actually left Melbourne yesterday afternoon after completing our volunteer shifts in the morning. After a quick lunch in the city we raced home to finish packing the truck to hit the road