Day 3. Sitting in the van with hot drinks, light rain falling with our heater on after an adventurous day. Just returned from dinner at the Port Broughton Hotel with Raechel's family. Today we followed the mighty Murray River through Waikerie and the vast vineyards and citrus orchards of the Riverland to old river town of Morgan. We passed through Cobdogla, Banrock Station and Oxford Landing wine regions, buying fresh fruit at a roadside stall. At Morgan we wer...

Day 2. Today we drove across the vast Hay Plain to Balranald, noticing many wild emus and thousands of huge wrapped cotton bales. Onto pretty Mildura and then to beautiful Murray River port town of Renmark for refuelling and lunch. We are now in the Sunraysia Riverland region of South Australia with its vast vineyards and citrus orchards. Stopped for the night in a lovely grassy van park just outside the village of Barmera on Lake Bonney. In 1964 Sir Donald Camp...

Day 1. Left sunny Canberra at 10.30am, at last, after so much planning and preparation for this big trip. Stopped for picnic lunch in the park at Gundagai, then onto my old childhood town of Narrandera for a short break. Decided to push onto Hay across the Hay Plain for an overnight free camp at Sandy Point Reserve. Noticed hundreds of huge cotton bales. Arrived after dark, raining lightly and the road into the reserve a bit slippery and very muddy. Drove 550k...

Preparations are underway for our next big caravan journey to South Australia, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Victoria.