We left Adelaide on 7 April and drove north to Port Augusta which sits at the top of the Spencer Gulf. Most of the terrain en route was flat, dry and uninteresting - mainly wheat country but occasionally other crops. We drove through Snowtown where 8 bodies were found in barrels of acid! We stopped at Port Pirie (on the east side of the Spencer Gulf) which is the 6th largest city in South Australia. It has some nice old buildings and has the largest iron smelter...

Having returned the houseboat, we bid farewell to our friends - Garry was off home to Canberra, Sue off home to Perth, Jenny off to Melbourne to visit her son and his family, and Grant and Ian off to Adelaide. We were also going to Adelaide but our car was too small to accommodate 4 people plus luggage, so the others were taking Grant and Ian to Adelaide en route to the airport.We decided to visit Hahndorf which is a lovely village in the Adelaide hills. It was...

On March 27, we drove the short distance from Murray Bridge to Mannum where we met our 5 friends and took possession of our houseboat for the next week. After all the preliminaries, including training in running the boat, we moored further upstream at Mannum's town centre for an overnight stop. Some of us went for a walk around town. It's very small but pleasant. It's a tourist place and obviously gets a lot of income from the houseboat visitors.Th...

After just one night in Mount Gambier, we drove to Murray Bridge. It was one of our longer journeys, 380km, and it took just over 4 hrs. We drove through hectares and hectares of vineyards - including the Coonawarra and Padthaway regions, and others we hadn't heard of eg Wrattonbully. The terrain then changed and became very flat, dry and uninteresting. It was wheat country and we travelled alongside the railway with its Viterra grain silo stations along ...