Tuesday morning we left Euston at 7.45am, yes a very early start for us. It was freezing; DABUS heater was turned on and didn't go off until we hit Mildura. Stopping at Mildura to buy Alan some new runners and check out an op shop or two, we found a fantastic fleecy jacket (Lorelle's new sitting around the fire jacket) for $7 and a roasting fork (as we had left ours at home in our extra's box).

Heading out of Mildura along the Sturt Highway we decided to enjoy one more night out by the Murray River. We camped near the Lock 9 and the weather was nice and sunny, so we enjoyed more walks along the river. A cook up was had to make sure we didn't have to hand over any produce etc at the SA border, stirfry for dinner and a pot of soup.

The following day we did a detour off the Sturt Highway down to Werrimull, where we stopped and checked out Victoria's most outback pub, Werrimull Hotel. It was closed at the time, so we moved onto the historical town of Millewa. This has been set up by the Pioneer Forest and Historical Society back in 1986 with the emphasis to preserve the heritage, environment and the history of the Millewa community.

We spent nearly two hours here and loved the way this committee has preserve so much local history. It certainly is a credit to them and detour that is a must if heading into South Australia from Mildura.

After passing through quarantine at the border we past vineyards and orange groves that were in full harvest. As we have travelled up to Burra twice before we wanted to travel roads that we hadn't travelled prior. At Morgan we crossed the Murray River on the barge then we travelled across to Auburn, through the Clare Valley, stopping at Clare for lunch and didn't check out any wineries (too much wine on board DABUS currently). From Clare we travelled north through Spalding and onto Jamestown.

Just prior to Spalding we decided to stop at a campsite that we had camped at previously to collect some firewood. To get to this campsite, we had previously travelled over an old bridge, access to this site has now been blocked off with no access over the bridge and it's no longer on Wikicamps. So we decided to head down the No Through Road, out the back. As we are travelling slowing down this road, Lorelle through the corner of her eye, saw a kangaroo bounding along right beside DABUS and then overtaking us. It was like the scene out of 'Australia' movie, with Nicole Kidman.

We have been travelling through open countryside, which is wheat county and very windy. Our top speed, at one stage was 60kph, so needless to say fuel consumption wasn't too good.

We stopped the night 10km south of Melrose and had a very wet and windy night.

The following day we travelled into Port Augusta, it had rained all day. Just as we arrived into Port Augusta, Sheree & Lance video called from Honolulu, (isn't technology fantastic) so after an hour catch up with them and their travel plans, we went and picked up some pepsi before heading out of town.

Mmmmm, do we turn right, change our plans and head into warmer weather…..

No we decided to suck it up and put up with the cold, wet, windy weather.

Heading out of Port Augusta, our stop for the night was Iron Knob, a mining town. The first sign we saw was an Emu sign but no sign of any emus, until the following morning. The town consists of run down houses, with heaps of car wrecks, a community garden, a bowling green and a pub. We saw no one, except of other travellers, in sight until after 5pm when the miners had knocked off work, there were no children around. It rained all night and we woke to a foggy morning.

The following day we stopped at Kimba, which is 'Halfway Across Australia' being the halfway mark between the east and west coast. The town has the first silo art on the Eyre Peninsula, The Big Galah and a sculpture of Edward John Eyre and his aboriginal tracker. The town also offers heaps of camping facilities, with hot showers etc all for a small donation, but no fires, so as it was cold we were inside early for the night.