Travelling Around

  It's mid winter here and it is wet and cold and as I have said before I would much prefer the summer, but it is winter and I try to make the most of it.  Most other years we try to get away from the cold weather and head to the north but as travelling is still a bit of a gamble we have stayed put.  We have friends who have travelled north to Queensland and now with the lockdowns they are not sure when they will get back home. We have had a few day trips out and as I have been having trouble walking, it has been great to go out in the car to just get out of the house.   One of our day trips a few weeks ago was to Milang, about 70km from home. The old blacksmith building in Milang Milang is a lovely little town on the shores of Lake Alexandrina.  It is now more of a holiday destination and only around 800 permanent residents live there.  Our family used to have a holiday house  shack on the foreshore and we all learnt to water ski when we stayed there in summer holidays.  Now ther

Winter has arrived here and it is cold and wet, and I am not a happy winter camper.  So, to keep me happy we decided to head north where it should be warmer. On a cool and cloudy morning our first stop was at a rest area near Brinkworth,  about 2 hours from Adelaide, where we stopped for a break. The sky is looking better After Brinkworth there were quite a few stoppages due to roadworks, some for as long as 10 minutes which made a difference to our travelling time as in between the stops we were limited to 40 km/hr in places and even down to 25 km/hr in some.  When we left home the weather was cool at 12C with some light rain and overcast.  By the afternoon we had warmer weather and even stopped at the small town of Laura to buy the famous Golden North ice cream which is made locally and sold all over the country. We stopped overnight at Melrose, another small town, at the Monument camping area. Goyder's monument Goyder's Line is  a line that runs roughly east–west across Sout