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DAY: 3
Off to do another day of big Ks… scene changed from open plains to those funny leaf topped trees you see in this bottom end of Aust…. a quick wipe around at Viterra another small grain silo community it’s with Silo Art to see…a little girl amongst the wheat fields…then next stop….a morning tea stop at a little Café come community store at Minnipa very neat little town.

A chat with Vic as we head to Ceduna, all to Bill to update him where we are at…Msg to Sheryl and Dave to give them update on our ETA…they are having a ball exploring alone…guessing we will be in their way once there…

A morning tea at Minnipa Community Store to have our morning tea….Great coffee, well set up store with Post Office and 2nd hand book store…Good service and friendly young women who owns it…we got some fuel there at $2.05…

Off we set on the road nothing amazing to see until Ceduna where we filled up with fuel on our way in @$1.89 cheap as chips here…Lunch at a very modern pub…John had Homemade pie, mash and greens..I had Honey chicken, rice and greens…so much left we had the rest for dinner and it was yum…

Off we set from Ceduna coming across once more the Windmill Town, so a must stop at Penong to have a quick look at the Windmill Museum….We stopped here years ago…

Then off we speed to the Nullarbor Plains…nothing has changed here even the fuel is still outrageous @$2.80 a litre….but you have to pay it if you want to keep going…silly thing is about 150ks back-it was only $1.99a litre, so this mob are holding everyone to ransom…still worth a stop took some pics the sky clouds today are making everything look unreal….I bought us drinks and ice creams.. one had sadly been melted a few times and tasted terrible….😢
Off up the Hwy to find a camp site for the night…we had earlier had to pass 2 huge wide loads and here on the Nullarbor was another and the Hwy isn’t as wide at all…in fact we had to wait until we got to the RFDS airstrip on the Hwy to get enough room to pass him….
We were making our way to the Edge Campsite once past him, the area is covered in Limestone, low ever green shrubs and greens grey Salt bushes…
We had clocked up another 900ks today so both ready to stop…

So finally we made it to The bottom of mainland Australia! Our Camp-spot for tonight! All looked perfect when we arrived a bit of wind from the North so we set up the camper with the kitchen facing the ocean got dinner sorted, lovely weather! No coats! Just before bed the wind started to change to the East then it really started to hammer us! At 1am we battened down the hatch’s! Rain started on and off! Then at 3.30 am it really started blowing from the West and pounded us to the point I felt the camper might lift off the ground! So we decided to pack up! While packing a massive gust of wind grabbed the camper canvas and literally ripped it to shreds on the left side and it pulled off the screwed down section at the back! All we could do was pack it up and head off! Also blown away was our rescued 35 yr. old mat we found in the ocean at Rules beach! Very sad it was off a fishing vessel and the best camping mat we ever had! Guessing it’s gone back to the ocean with all that wind! What a night! Now to figure how to fix up our camper quickly to meet up with Sheryl and Dave and Bill to start the real adventure! 🤔🤔🤔😢😢😢Read more