Sunday 1^st July

Today we venture across the border into South Australia.  We know about the quarantine restrictions this time, so I have used up all the vegetables and made a big pot of chicken and vegetable soup, and we finished the fruit with our breakfast.  We now have to wait until the first reasonable size town across the border to stock up on fresh supplies. Looking at the map and websites I don’t think I can expect any big Woolworths or Aldi – looks like a Foodland and we all know how expensive they can be!!

It was one of our longest drives – about 300 km, although Bob reassured me that while the driving was not difficult, the constant headwind was  just something to be endured.  I leave this part of the trip to him – he enjoys being behind the wheel, while I am happy to soak up the scenery.  Cockburn was the little town on the border and we were waiting, waiting and watching to be pulled over and have the truck and caravan searched for that contraband, nothing happened and we saw nobody in any authority to give us the 3^rd degree.

We passed through little towns named Olary, Yunta, Oodla Wirra and our destination Peterborough.  I am naming these towns as a few readers of this blog have written emails to us commenting that they are re-living a previous journey and our trip is refreshing their minds.

At Peterborough we found a camp spot along with a few others and enjoyed the peace and quiet until “toot toot” – the Indian Pacific train was travelling along its thrice weekly journey at a cracking pace.