Trish has been so brave today, rode her bike on a gravel road. Having the headset communications makes it good as I can warn her of road conditions but also funny as I hear all her moans and groans when she hits a more difficult patch of road. Yesterday we went two up on my bike on a longer gravel road to do a 8.2km hike. It was a geological hike with references to different geological eras. We saw a spot which is called a "Golden Spike". This is the first i...

Dave & I arrived at Wilpena caravan park late in the afternoon after exploring 2 country towns on the way, and note, Dave also ate a huge $11 steakburger at Hawker; but he only took a photo of mine! When we set up our tent home in the hot afternoon, a nice older German lady came over and gave us a cool drink as we looked so hot. There are lots of older German tourists here, mostly they are driving the big camper vans that are hired. We are about the only peop...

A lazy packup at Port Augusta with only 160+km to travel to Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. First stop was the small town of Quorn with it's old world street scape. Beautiful old stone buildings with their verandas. The old store still had a working money sender where the store staff would put the money in a container and send it via a wire to the office. After a walk around Quorn we went on to Hawker. Here we saw the working seismometer. South Austra...

Dave and I are off to Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges, for the next 4 days at least. We may be offline for this time as we're not sure of how the internet connection is there. We're having a nice lazy day in Port Augusta, catching up on little things to do. See us sitting outside our tent having our muesli breakfast. Weather is perfect for us. We went for a walk to the main part of town today, it's a very friendly town. The chemist even gave us a Free toile...

Trish has finally made it to Cowell and the famous Cowell Black Jade. After wanting to come here for a long time she was not disappointed. Normally people can only go to the Jade Showrooms at the local Motel. When we arrive at the Motel we asked about seeing the factory area, which is not always available for viewing. The lady said that there was a car over at the factory compound so we scurried over the road just in time to catch the Jade cutter shutting do...