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Wed, Sep 19, 2012

9/19/2012

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We crossed our first border on Monday and the south australia experiences have been coming thick and fast!
First we decided to stay the night in Peterborough and from the get go it was 'welcome to freaky town'!!! From the super loud fellow in the information train (?), to the deaf man who wanted Ruth and I to 'come and see his billiard table', to the bird that weed on me from a tree, we both agreed there was no way we were staying the night there. So on to Ororoo, (try saying that and not sounding like Scooby Doo) wher the car proceeded to break down. Yep, we had picked up a gremlin in freaky town and it was playing its tricks.
So we stayed in a cabin at the caravan park and at the local mechanics insistence, kept driving the next day. We pulled into the spectacular Wilpena Pound resort to pick up wood for our bush camping and boom. Car no go. So the trusty Tarago was towed away and Ruth got to have a nice smell of a truck (fetish!).
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And now we are here, stranded in the achingly beautiful Flinders Ranges while the car gets a new transmission installed. But thanks to nrma premium coverage we are here for free and have an awesome Prado to drive! Silver lining!!!
This place is incredible. Yesterday we hiked up to the top of the pound (a vast natural oval shaped 'crater' full of arcing silver gums and flowers, animals and a rippling spring) and over the next few days we will use the resort as a base from which to explore the many gorges and indigenous sites in the area. Our camp looks out into a gorgeous dry creek bed and there are kangaroos and emu passing right by us all day long. And the showers rock!!! The boys have found another 'epic' bike jump and we are cooking over the fire most meals.
Love you all and wish you were here!
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Kristina Bodewes
9/18/2012 09:34:45 pm

Be careful! Just can't stop thinking of the Wolf Creek movie....

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Gavin
9/18/2012 10:06:06 pm

let's not mention 'wolf creek' oops too late!

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ann
9/19/2012 04:59:29 pm

the Flinders Ranges is where Jonah and I met........ lots of memories

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