Saturday 24th November 2018
Happy birthday Paul. Hope you have had a lovely day.
Well it is time to move camp. After a week of not so great weather we are leaving West Beach Big 4 Park. It has supplied wonderful amenities, extremely hot temperatures, very cold, extremely windy and pretty much ordinary weather. We have endured a night in the car, a day of sun stroke conditions followed by a day of hypothermic conditions, then the following day gale force winds. Such varied climate. Well they say it is the state of extremes and they weren’t joking.
So where to next?
First stop the camping and hiking shops in Adelaide City to explore a few options for our camping and hiking. As always, this takes much longer than expected, or not. We are creatures of habit and we both struggle with the decision of major purchases. DB always wants to do more research and I am keen for the purchase but struggle to make the decision. We finally came away with a new blue hiking daypack for me (in hindsight I wish I got the green one. Typical of me, buyers remorse), and a pair of hiking socks for both of us.
Okay so by now it is 4pm. The question again is – Where to next?
Answer: The Mt Remarkables National Park. The lower part of the Flinders Ranges. Just north Port Pirie. We realised that we needed to go here first because of the weather and then on further research established that the Flinders Ranges National Park closes on 30th November until March next year. So off we go, back home to the bush. This was a 3 our drive, with sunset time of 8.08pm we decided to go for it. We arrived at about 7.50pm and found our site, then set up cooking facilities. Oops, here comes the rain, so a quick setup of the gazebo over the back of the car. Oops oops again. Here comes the wind so we had to lower the back of the gazebo down and station David there to hold it down. Then it was still and the rain stopped. So we managed a nice home cooked dinner again tonight, with lots of vegetables. Yay.
Oh well, off to bed now in one of our favourite locations.
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- The only medal for David and Doggy at this World Championships. Silver in the 50-54 years Male Board Rescue. They were on the wave with Paul Lemmon and Peter O’Byrne from Terrigal who came 3rd. Yay boys.
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- The Stag Public House Adelaide City
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- Horizontal tree in the park on Rundle Street Adelaide City
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- Heading towards Mt Remarkables National Park
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- Entering the Mt Remarkables National Park, DB had to slow down a few times for the wildlife as it was kangaroo o’clock
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- We arrived at our campsite and started to cook dinner in the light
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- Our favourite campground in the bush – The Remarkables National Park
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- A quick setup of the gazebo over the back of the car as the heavy raindrops fall and then the windsocks up.
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- West Beach to Mambray Creek, Mt Remarkable National Park – 300km