Gidday all,

Back on the road again. After a week or two back with Deb and the camels hanging about and then camel and dog sitting for her while she went to pick up a bloke who wants to get experience with camels for an upcoming trek he wants to do across Australia.

Deb arrived back with her student and set about training him with her new, young camel. He was nervous at first but was gaining confidence day by day.

We decided to leave them to it and headed off to do a recon of a trip Deb wants to do with the wagon and the new chums for a test run.

SA have public buildings in all small towns called Institutes, lovely old stone buildings, some big some small, most are still used something like town halls. Taplin, just a small settlement on the boarder, with only a handful of residents and a post office, has one. So many ruins of old stone buildings dotted about the state as well.

Out through Sunset Murray again towards Wentworth in NSW and Mildura in Vic

All good dirt tracks till you get to the Murray River near Wentworth where you meet the hiway and have to cross the river on a busy road, not good for camels and wagon.

Went into Wentworth and camped up on the river just out of town, where the Murray and the Darling rivers meet. Went out to the Perry Sandhills just out of town, a large area of sand dunes which were deposited there by the river in years gone by. They have been the location of many films and tv series like Man from Snowy River II, Burk and Wills, Flying doctors and Bony, to name some.

Camped up at the foot of the dunes and spent a couple of days there.

Will now follow the river back towards Renmark scouting for tracks suitable for the camels.