Friendly local in Blanchtown

200k's from Adelaide in middle of buck-f-nowhere and a very conversational lady at the shop tells us all about her mastif dog terrorising her pond fish, neighbour lads and much, much more. Until the manager came out and chased her back to work. Our cue to vacate. It made the short stop at Blanchtown interesting. I hope we meet a lot more people like her.

The landscape is dry, almost barren. It's 37 degrees but they irrigate grapes and other fruit trees from the Murray River water so there are these weird patches of green that we can feel shouldn't be there.

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