Our caravan trip for October 2024. Our new tag (CB radio etc) Lost4Good. Firstly…according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyre_Peninsula The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Earlier called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who explored parts of the peninsula in 1839–41. The coastline was first charted by the expeditions of Matthew Flinders in 1801–02 and French explorer Nicolas Baudin around the same time. Flinders also named the nearby Yorke’s Peninsula and Spencer’s Gulph on the same voyage. Narda in italics and Terrell whatever else is left… If the four individual YouTube clips embedded in this blog do not open due to permission levels then go to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzv1YGfx_SMxNU3xT3Ahcmajuaq7sj8rt for our Australian videos. Clips 1 – 4 are from this trip. Secondly…Narda made notes then read those notes into her phone and sent them to me as text. A new way we are trialling our blogs to make travelling easier to note without lugging laptops and various devices around the world. I am still lugging stuff: cameras, computer, and accumulated junk to record memories so I don’t have to remember, and I can keep my few remaining brain cells to do whatever a seventy-seven year needs to keep prodding forward. 30 September Monday Stop 1 After a short drive, which included 4 doughnuts, I ate three, we turned left for 8 kilometers to the seaside and stayed in what we thought was a free stop. Nice to be on the road again. We said goodbye to Billy. (Billy was our 2002 Pajero, that we had taken many trips with including going on a few months trip during covid to Cairns in Queensland. A couple of trips across to Sydney, lots to Melbourne, and many other great caravanning trips) He has moved to St Kilda to fish with his new owner. We now have 2022 Pajero Sport, not yet named because I have not been able to draw him. Though definitely a boy. Got a late start. We were going to leave yesterday morning and here we are leaving three pm the following day. Go figure. Stayed overnight at Parham Camping Ground a full hour from home. This is how far we got when we are planning a month holiday. Got to take it easy from the get-go. We have stayed here before – free camping, which is why we chose it. Of course, now they want $15. Something about uploading $ to their website. We were unable to sort it out, so we sort of didn’t pay anything. Had a good sleep, quiet, dark and all that. We made a large quantity of soup so as not to have to make a meal for the first couple of days. Just heat and eat on our gas stove. 01 October Tuesday Left at seven am – drove to Wallaroo – forgot to check door of fridge – yogurt all over the floor and etc. breakfast – arrived – Lawrie Park – Port Pirie Stop 2 Lawrie Park It was a long-convoluted drive North. We first stopped in Wallaroo to check out the ferry, which is expensive. Then we headed to Port Pirie. Following google in a most confusing road, which included corrugation and seemingly back tracking. Anyway, it was very nice. We parked the van snug up to the camp kitchen. And head for an afternoon nap on the way when we stopped in Wallaroo, we realized that we had forgotten to pack things away properly. The yoga was all over the floor and some of the stuff fell out of the fridge. Oh dear. Anyway, it’s nice now. Beautiful weather and quiet. OK, now we’re at Laurie Park. We found a lovely spot after our eventful drive. Right behind the camp kitchen under some nice large trees, big mistake. The wind blew up during the night and at one o’clock in the middle of the night we drove out and away from the trees and went back to sleep. Then onto Port Augusta with not enough diesel the third time we have done this we made it with the dial flashing furiously only to find out that we still had five litres left our tank holds 67 to 68 litres and it took 62 L...
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