Day 71 and 72. Into the 11th week now on the road. We left freezing Peterborough and arrived in sunny warmer Broken Hill early afternoon. Even managed a t-shirt for a while. My grandfather was a miner here and my grandmother a barmaid in the first decade of the 20th century. It was the second largest town in NSW then. Tuesday we visited the Daydream Mine outside Silverton. The mine has been active 3 times since 1882. It is much as it was in 1882, as far as we co...

Day 70. Still on Cowell, we noticed that you can get a ferry - you, caravan, people and pets - from Cowell across Spenser's Gulf. We also noticed that Sing Australia and our own Colin Slater have a branch here in Cowell! Unable to make the ferry times work with our travel imperatives, we opted to drive via Whyalla, Port Augusta to Peterborough. Whyalla is still there, still inhabited and we saw ships in the harbour. They may of course be uplifting the refugees f...

Day 69 and 70. The town of Streaky Bay is very pretty and it has many lovely 19th century buildings and cottages. SA has retained so much of its heritage and really looks after it. That combined with its setting on the bay make it a most attractive destination. We had to purchase a microwave here as ours has stopped working so we left a few shekels here. Then on to Cowell via Ellison. We followed the Bight coast to Ellison, then drove across the Eyre Peninsula ...

Day 68. We left Fowler's Bay in better weather and motored down to Streaky Bay, stopping at Ceduna for a look and to stock up on fruit and veg. Ceduna is a well set up town and worth the visit. Then on to Streaky Bay through country almost like the rolling hills above Swanage in the UK. Very green. Like Fowler's Bay, it was named by Mathew Flinders and was a base for EJ Eyre. Also like Fowler's Bay, it was settled by whalers and pastoralists in the mid 19th centu...

Day 66 and 67. Drove on over the Nullarbor and the Great Australian Bight came into view as the Eyre Highway wended its way along the coast. We passed by Eucla heading for Fowler's Bay on the Bight. We gobbled up our fruit as we passed into SA but no-one checked. This happened on day 68 at Ceduna. We stayed 2 nights at Fowler's Bay, a pretty town established in the 19th century originally by whalers and pastoralists. EJ Eyre used it as his starting point in cross...