Marree and Lake Eyre After a sigh of relief at hitting the bitumen again, we made our way north from Paranchila to Leigh Creek and stopped there to get the leaky tyre fixed (yes, we got another puncture on a Sunday but couldn't do anything about it until we got out of the national park). Leigh Creek and Copley are pretty towns and shortly after that we saw the coal mine from the road. Then it was onto unsealed road again after Lyndhurst and no other stops until ...

Flinders Ranges National Park We stayed our first night in SA at a rest stop just outside of Peterborough and then went into town the next morning. They had some really good railway history and we had our photo taken with Bob the Railway Dog. After picking up some groceries, we continued on our way with the aim of getting to the national park before dark. We made it easy, with a few stops along the way in Hawker to get lunch and fuel and then some lookouts along...

Broken Hill - 2 weeks on the road. We decided to stay 2 nights in Broken Hill, because of our Willcania fly through and because there is heaps to see here! It's hard to believe this time 2 weeks ago we were getting on the boat to start our journey. We have seen and done so much, and there is still a lot more time to go! When we first arrived in Broken Hill, we drove around and had a look through town, got some petrol (it appears as though our engine trouble with...

Mt Hope & Cobar We set off from Gum Bend Lake early in the morning and went back into Condobolin to ask at the visitor information centre about the condition of roads and how to get through to Mt Hope, because there has been a lot of rain recently. The ladies there couldn't help much but one of them did say that she usually drives a road from Condo' to Kiacatoo and if it was going to be flooded anywhere, we would know sooner rather than later. So we headed o...

This morning we first stopped at Peak Hill for the Open Cut Experience which is a self-guided walk of old gold workings and 5 open cut mines. The open cut pits were pretty big but we were impressed most by walking over the old mine shafts. It was eerie to hear the wind coming up through them. We stopped in the town of Peak Hill to post some postcards but Kent ended up talking to a local retired school teacher for ages and I had fun looking through the antique and...