Flinders Ranges

On the road with our companion Willy the Camel

We left home on Wednesday  9th September and the weather was cloudy and cool.  The van is stored at our son's place so we  hooked up and packed up our clothes and some perishables before we set off.  We headed to the small town of Sedan  and then onto Kapunda, about 100 km drive.

The countryside was lovely with paddocks of canola and lovely green crops.  We stopped at Kapunda for lunch in a park on the lake and then headed to Clare where we thought we would stop in the caravan park but unfortunately we didn't book and they had no vacancies as we wanted a drive through site for just one night.  

We drove on to Jamestown about 79 km ahead and I phoned ahead to make sure we could get in and we got there at about 4pm.  We had an issue with our electrics but got it sorted out.  It was cold overnight but I had an extra quilt and we had the air conditioner as well so we were very comfortable.  So far we have travelled 340 km which is about all we like to do in a day now that we have plenty of time.

Next morning we headed to Hawker but it was very busy and again we couldn't get into the caravan park in this small town. 

View of the Flinders Ranges near Hawker

 

We have been to Hawker many times before on our trips up to the Flinders Ranges, so we continued on to Quorn after I phoned them to make sure we could get in.  Our next stop before was Orroroo so we stopped there and had coffee at a nice little coffee shop and got some maps etc to help us work out the best route as things had changed from our original plans.

From Orroroo we headed to Quorn and arived early in the afternoon so we could relax after what seemed like a long day.