We left Sunday morning in very frosty conditions and travelled along Victoria's scenic drive through Chinkapook to Ouyen and Pinnaroo. We enjoyed our first morning tea at Ouyen and lunch at Pinnaroo and there we saw a shop display to rival the girls "Tailored Peach".
We then headed north to Loxton and Berri then found a great camping spot on the Lyrup Flats right by the Murray River. We set up quickly and found ourselves having a wine and beer at 4pm!! Needless to say we were ready for bed by 8.30 and had a VERY long night! We were surprised when the chap camped up the way came to say hello - he was Chris Clough from Kerang and his family - he recognised Dennis's laugh!
We had to spend time in Renmark thismorning while our zip was repaired - lucky there was a Big W in the town to visit while we were waiting and Tops was able to buy more plates! Yes, a couple of plates were broken on our trip yesterday and we weren't even off road!! We had a coffee on the waterfront which is very picturesque - Dennis and Tops have been very impressed with the presentation of the towns like Berri, Loxton, Waikerie and Renmark.
This is our last trip in our current campers as we are both upgrading - and before we left I put a "For Sale" sign on our camper's spare tyre - much to Darryl and Dennis's amusement - but we've already had one enquiry so hopefully something comes from my little notice.
We travelled from Waikerie to Blanchetown and then to Swan Reach and now are camped at Walkers Flat. Darryl's family had a shack here till 1973 and he has many fond memories of great times here - through floods, skiing, fishing and happy family times. It's all changed though and we find it difficult to recognise the old shack though Darryl did find Fowerakers shack. We had a lot of laughs remembering poor Ron Foweraker having his dressing gown cut to a happy coat and the boys getting the boat lost in the willows!
The beautiful cliffs at Walkers Flat.
Trev and Sandy, we think this is the Foweraker shack.
Tomorrow we show off the Barossa Valley and Clare Valley so Dennis and Tops will see more picturesque country. We plan to camp at Melrose and will be able to have a proper shower and may even do a load of washing. Our weather has been cool but quite sunny and we hope there is no rain on the radar. We were as warm as toast in our campers last night with our hot water bottles. Gee we must be getting old!!
Hope everything is good with all our readers. We wish our 'baby' Josh a very happy birthday today. 🎈🎈🎊
Till our next blog, love from the travellers.
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