ENTRY 25 FINAL

Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th November 2009

Monday and Tuesday was hot, high 30's and long way from a sea breeze. The bus got a wash n polish and a spring clean, enjoyed relaxing with friends.

Wednesday all packed and ready for the last drive, home is 400k away. Tail wind, great way to finish, the drive was easy till we hit the freeways of the city... ahhhhh not used to that crap, everyone is in a hurry. An hour later and back on home turf, set up camp on the beach at Rye, here for 6 months, great view of Port Phillip Bay out the window.

Well what a trip!!! 6 months and one day, 21,000 klms pumped 3200 litres of Diesel and oh so relaxed. The bus was fantastic even after a couple of hiccups. We met some great new and old friends along the way and hope we keep in contact and maybe meet again.

Cheers Alan and Maz and DABUS

ENTRY 24

Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th November

Monday to Wednesday we fished every day except no snapper fishing as its closed season all of November, rather bad timing I thought. Monday had us sweltering in 42 degree heat and hot winds no way of getting away from it, but Maz found a way taking a trip with neighbors to the air conditioned shopping centre, by 4 pm it had dropped about 15 degrees, sounds like Victorian weather!

Point Lowly

Thursday had huge amount of packing as we had spread our stuff everywhere over the week. On the road mid morning and a short drive to Port Augusta, that completed a loop of 20,000 klms and 5 3/4 months.

The afternoon drive was a tour to and around Port Pirie, then off the Hwy into the hills to a small town called Crystal Brook. Friday was a 3 hour drive through The Clare Valley onto The Barossa Valley, fantastic scenery and great small towns. Booked into C/park in Nuriootpa so we can go to the Barossa Farmers Market in the morning. Dinner at the local pub was great, nice local red wine grown and produced by the year 12 kids at the local Secondary College, ordered a dozen bottles to be delivered home yum.

Barossa Valley Farmers Market

Packed and left C/park by 8am then to farmers market, bacon and eggs for breaky all local and fresh produce, well worth a visit, back on the road and travelled through Barmera and Remark then Mildura.... Victoria!!!!! wow.

The plan was to stop and camp near Mildura, but the weather is hot hot so kept driving south through Ouyen then to Sea Lake and camped at the local park. Sunday morning was a 40 mins drive to Quambatook where we will camp for a few days at Dean and Sue's.