Next day, March 25, we left Warrnambool for our next stop, Mount Gambier. We stopped at an Irish village called Kuroit. The Irish influence is very pronounced around Warrnambool with names like Killarney, the Belfast Lime Company. Kuroit is a cute little town with some nice buildings and typical Irish humour evident. Their Historical Society had information about their early settlers who came from all over Ireland, including Limerick, but there were no McLoug...

The next day (4 March), we left Tanunda for Renmark. We drove through Nurioopta where we had planned to stop but it seemed a very ordinary country town so we just drove around and carried on. Our route took us through Truro, named after the Cornish Truro, and then Blanchetown where we stopped and checked out Lock 1 on the Murray River. We passed through this lock in 2000 when we had a houseboat holiday on the Murray. We hoped to see the lock in operation this...

We flew to Adelaide, hired a car and drove to Tanunda in the Barossa Valley where we stayed for 2 nights. The Barossa is one of Australia's major wine producing regions. It's full of vineyards and wineries, some of which we recognised but many we'd never heard of! Very similar to the Margaret River region in Western Australia. On our full day in the Barossa Valley (3 March), we did a circular drive south west through Rowland Flat and Lyndoch to C...