Day 8: We have decided our new occupation in life: to go where required to break the drought. Third time I have been on the Nullarbor and third time of rain. We had horrendous sideway winds on leaving Wudinna and this seriously affects the fuel consumption. Not terribly pleasant at all. So, on leaving Cedunna we asked Sam the directions to Kalgoorlie, our next big stop. Turn left in 1198 kms - so there is the Nullarbor, straight roads for ever. We did pul...

Day 7: An early start on our sightseeing although really windy looked like a good day to head into the Gawler Ranges. We knew there would be dirt roads but 180 kms of them was a trifle much and the condition was deplorable. Poor Fonz, thought he was going to give up and leave us stranded, I may have joined in the boycott if there was any chance of help getting to us, no phone reception just nothing. Did not see another car on the road all day and doubt there ...

Day 6: Wonderful blue-sky day and slightly warmer in the scheme of things. We left Quorn and headed the 40 kms to Port Augusta on our way again. More food for the starving Fonz, we are filling the car everyday and it is on empty when this happens so we worked out we are going thru $85 in diesal and another $35 in caravan costs - not cheap these days to caravan. Have to keep an eye on it over the Nullarbor as running out of fuel is not an option. Parked in Po...

Day 5: On leaving Morgan we headed again west thru lots and lots of kilometres of silvery grey saltbush as far as we can see with bright yellow gorse bush lining the roadsides. We started seeing emu amongst the saltbush very difficult to spot although you would not think so. Conversation going on…. with is that an emu, no it's a rock, no emu, no I am sure it's a rock when the 'rock' lifts its head with a supercilious look with a 'to whom are you referring'. ...

Day 4: On waking this morning Wally opened the van door and the view from my bed was of bright sunshine, vineyards and frost - well two out of three ain't bad. Wally complains of having to pack up the water hoses every morning cause of the cold and ice, his poor digits get frozen. We just heard on the radio close to our next stop was -4 overnight, really whose idea was this trip at this time of year. We headed off for another 400 kms for the day towards Morg...