Naracoorte SA

Curse the cold! We had had enough of the infernal frigid breeze straight up from the antarctic and left Victor Harbor a day early. We headed toward Victoria, crossed the Murray River by vehicular ferry at Wellington, stopped at Keith for lunch at a delightful cafe, and cruised into Naracoorte by about 2 o'clock.

The van park is a delight, not real busy and high sites. We walked over to the town via the local pond and under the disused train line. In town we did - nothing. Which must come as a surprise because despite the fact that they had at least half-a-dozen coffee shops, we just wandered back home again and had a cup of tea instead.

A few snaps;

These 3 ducks came paddling toward me looking for a feed... Naracoorte SA

...and then turned and slunk away, empty billed and tails between their legs. Naracoorte SA

Old railway line. Naracoorte SA

Gum tree flower. Naracoorte SA

Old railway line. Naracoorte SA

Sadly, this is the penultimate post

Yes folks, sad but true. Who would have thought that 137 days could go so fast? One minute your heading out all bright eyed and bushy tailed and the next you're looking back on some great times and pinching yourself to check that you really did go to all those places and do all those things. Good job we took snaps and wrote a blog and a diary otherwise we would never have believed it.

But, today is the last day out for us, we head home tomorrow, so for now i'll just leave you with some snaps from Lake Conjola, and promise to write an extensive wrap of the whole experience tomorrow.

Don't forget to look at the Lake Conjola snaps again as i added some more.

Snaps of the day

Ducks on the lake

Sunset on the lake

More arty sunset on the lake

A last fish, a last champagne...

Rats! More car trouble

Yes, that's right, the fabulous X5 has packed it in again. Not happy, Jan!

This time we were coming back down the narrow dirt road from Pointers Hill and stopped to take a snap of some coloured birds in a tree and Bam! , a dreadful smell of burnt brakes or rubber or something and then the steering got all heavy like it had a flat tyre. Limped into Ulladulla, parked behind the NRMA shop and called roadside assistance. Turns out that the big pulley (harmonic balancer) on the bottom of the engine has collapsed. Game Over - tow it back to Canberra for repairs is the only really useful option.

Now as it happens I am a platinum member of NRMA with top level cover - and they have been fabulous so far : organised the car to be taken to Canberra, organised a hire car for us for the next week, and will, when asked , have the van transported back to canberra as well. Cost? Nothing. Doesnt get better than that.

Some snaps of Lake Conjola

So i suppose i should post the snap of that coloured bird that caused all the trouble...

Coloured bird. (aka King Parrot)