Gidday all,

Just been hanging round Taplin, doing odds and ends on the camper, fixing a few things that have been waiting for my attention for a while. The water temp gauge for the motor stopped working last week, so after some intense research, finally tracked down the correct sensor and replaced it. All working as it should now.

 

Also helped Deb start and move her bus to another location on the block. Was a bit of effort starting the thing as it had sat where it was for a couple of years, but eventually it burst into life with cheers all round.

 

After some time waiting for it to warm up and build up air pressure, it was into gear and on the move. Only a few hundred meters, but now in a better position for her and closer to the camels too.

 

 

Some cold and overcast days here in S.A. overnight temps around zero or less. Ice on the windscreen in the mornings. Memories of sweltering days in north QLD flood back at times like this, but only briefly.

Well, talk to you later, when we are doing something more exiting.

 

Gidday all,

Menindee, 118ks southeast of Broken Hill, is a quiet little outback town on the Menindee lakes. We rolled into town and as usual did a tour of the streets and stopped at the café for lunch. Took off for the lakes and looked at the sights.

The road we wanted to take went through the lakes national park then came back onto the Darling River again. It then continued following the river through sheep and cattle stations till you ended up back at Wentworth. So that’s the way we went.

 

Was a good trip all up. Back to Taplin and Deb. When we got back, Deb was having trouble with the transport she had organised to pick up her wagon, which was still in Copley, where she had left it at the end of the flinders ranges trip last year. After some discussion we offered to go and get it, as she could supply a trailer to cart it on.

So off we went again toward the Flinders Ranges. Arrived at Copley and the wagon looked pleased to see us.

 

. Loaded up and a quick trip back to Taplin. Deb was excited to see us drive in with her beloved wagon in tow. After a couple of days cleaning the wagon up and reorganization she was keen to hook up the camels and go for a spin.

 

We decided to do the border track alongside the National Park just up the road. As we were preparing to head off a friend of Deb turned up with her two camels and decided to come along too.

So off we went, truck, wagon and five camels, oh and two dogs.

First camp the grass was a bit long and dry so the night’s fire was lit in the middle of the track. Lucky not a lot of vehicles use come this way.

 

 

 

Lovely weather but cold nights. Debs friend was training her camels to walk while tied to the wagon, they soon got the hang of it and all animals were delighted to be out roaming in the wild. So were we.

 

 

 

It was only about 50ks the route we took, but we took the whole week to do it. A wonderful time was had by all.