• Perfectly perserved Peterborough
    Funny way to start the morningPretty good camping siteWatching the sun setBiking adventure

    Flinders Ranges

    1 lipca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C

    Pretty cold morning first time I have seen my breath while lying in bed. Boiling the kettle and 15 mins of the water heater being on and a much more comfortable temperature was achieved. As we had not unhitched the previous night we were able to be on the road by 8:30am. The roads today were straight and flat and really smooth. It’s nice to enjoy an easy drive as we know the roads are about to get tougher.

    First stop was a walk around Peterborough, which for all the train enthusiasts following is one of the few places that has three different gauges of train tracks laid. It is certainly the destination if you are into trains. There were at least 3 train museums we saw. It was obviously a large rural supply town in its day including a YMCA and the town has been immaculately preserved.

    Next stop was Hawker for fuel and gas top up, trying to be well organised to hit the desert. From there we only had 35km to Rawnsley Park Station where we had booked an unpowered site. The station has been offering accomodation and camping for over 50 years and now have all options from eco cabins to bush camping where we found a great site looking straight out to Wilpena Pound.

    We made the most of the afternoon out of the car and went on a bike ride. It was supposed to be 10km in a loop around the station. It was not well sign posted and we took two wrong turns and had to retrace our steps. It was a great way to test out the electric bikes and after the second wrong turn we decided to play it safe and return the same way we came.

    We braved a cold wind to have a drink outside watching the sun set on the range and then went to the kitchen to get some mobile coverage. Our Covid test had returned Negative so now nothing holding us back from entering Queensland. The camp is super busy tonight and there are camp fires on pretty much every site expect us Kiwi’s. We are loving having the large skies and amazing stars tonight with it being clear.

    Tomorrow we really start our outback adventure as we are heading to Marree and so our posts maybe become infrequent depending on mobile reception. It is exciting and daunting at the same time.
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