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Day 102. Farewell to Lyn and Colin in Port Broughton and we were on our way down to the Barossa Valley. We have really enjoyed our time here catching up with family. Up over the Barunga Pass through Bute and Snowtown, past the large wind farm turbines, the fields are so green with wheat, barley, chick peas and broadbeans and yellow canola. We stopped in Clare for morning tea and as we drove south through the Clare Valley, Watervale and Auburn the hills were covered in vineyards just sprouting with a touch of green. We have a real sense of Spring in the air! We entered the Barossa Valley through a back road which put us right in the middle of Seppeltsfield and the old Gnadenfrei Church, giant palms lining both sides of the narrow roads and past the huge old winery. Finally we turned onto the Barossa Valley Way through pretty Tanunda and found our Discovery CP on the edge of town just after lunchtime. We have a spacious grassy site where we will base ourselves for the next two nights while we explore the beautiful Barossa region. We went for an afternoon drive along the heritage trail through Nuriootpa and past some famous wineries such as Chateau Tanunda, Basedows, Penfolds, Chateau Dorrien, Elderton and Turkey Flat. Later we walked down Tanunda main street and admired the historic buildings, stone cottages and Lutheran churches as the area was first settled by Germans from Prussian Silesia in the 1840s. Dinner tonight home cooked Thai fish cakes with chilli sauce and salad. Drove 220km, fine sunny day 17 degrees.
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