💙 3rd month wrap up 💙

VIC - NSW - VIC - SA

Can’t believe we have been back on the road for another month (4 weeks) already 😳

We 💙love💙 adventuring with MancHester
When we were home over Xmas we made a few small changes which have worked really well for us and made life just a little bit easier 🥰

💙 New loves - car & van solar/battery set up, roof rack for bikes, Drifta wind break for Webber, Stratus chair caddy

We have had a few ‘oops’ moments but nothing too drastic 🙏🏻 -flat car battery AGAIN!🪫, leaking tap 💦, spilt coffee 🫟, broken fishing rod 🎣 and trip to emergency for a dog bite 🏥

👍🏻 Highlights - too numerous to list them all but incl our first night back on the road 🪵, catching up with friends, camping along the Murray 🏞️, swimming in the Murray 🏊‍♀️, catching a BIG fish 🎣 , being so isolated we can leave blinds open and take in the night sky and sunrise from our bed 🛏️ , DIY winery tour 🍷, Monarto Safari Park 🐘, night at the speedway 🏁 and all the places we have run/walked/hiked/cycled🏃🚶🏼🚴🏻, the people we have met, the fabulous sunsets/sunrises🌅 and clear starry skies🌌…..

👎🏻 Lowlights - wind 💨💨💨, bugs preventing evenings outside 🐜 🪰, the welcome we received at Mannum 🛑

😥 Challenges - cliff clambering to find Punyelroo Cave 🧗🏻, dealing with a few 40+ degree days 🥵

🍻Pubs visited - not as many as we expected 😜 but we’ve been back to our fav - the Historic Overland Corner Hotel 😍, others worth a mention/revisit incl Victoria Hotel, Dimboola (interior/welcome), Royal Oak Hotel, Penola (food), Pretoria Hotel, Mannum (beer garden/location), Swan Reach Hotel (view)

Next- we need to survive the current SA extreme heat wave, a week of high temps currently predicted at 42-48 degrees 🥵. Then we will decide where to next ……

Stats for trip:
#️⃣ 11440 km covered (8996 km towing), including 2607 km (2056 km towing) this month
#️⃣ 668km of dirt road (602km towing)

#️⃣ 16.45l/100km average fuel economy (from FuelMap Australia)
💰$3997.93 for 1881l diesel
💰 Highest fuel 2.99l (William Creek & Pink Roadhouse Oodnadatta SA)
💰 Lowest Fuel $157.9l (Glossop SA)

🏃🏼331.6 km run, including 7 parkruns
🏃🏻‍♀️75.1 km hiked
🚴🏻 272 km cycled

💰$70.80 highest camping costs - Kings Canyon Resort (with discount 😳)
💰$0 lowest camping costs
🏠 This month we have mainly split our time between free and low cost camping, with only 5 nights spent at caravan parks and only 2 with power (for aircon during a heat wave)
88 nights incl 43 caravan parks, 25 free camps, 1 pub camp, 4 donation camps, 15 low cost camps (showground/RV parks etc)

💵 $3150.50 spent in tourist activities (incl replacement fishing rod 🎣, posting wine home 😜and $1540 for flight✈️)

💰$46 spent on laundryRead more