Well I have to say I have lost interest in doing the blog since we got home but a couple of people have asked about it so I am going to finish it off. It has been so long I have forgotten what we did! Lucky there are some photos to remind me.
From Port Lincoln we headed north up the Eyre Peninsula towards Adelaide. We had no plans on where we were going to stop so just kept driving. We were all in a bit of a driving mood so since I had lunch packed we left the Eyre Peninsula pretty quickly and made it to Port Augusta. It was really strange to be back in Port Augusta. We couldn't believe that 6 months earlier we had driven through here and onto the Stuart Highway towards Alice Springs. And then drove the ENTIRE Stuart Highway to the beach in Darwin. We turned onto the Stuart Highway for a km or so, all feeling very nostalgic, and the kids were yelling "Keep going to Alice, we don't want to go home!" however we had to turn around and take the road to Adelaide. Now that we are back at home I wish we had taken that road back to Darwin!
We got to Port Pirie at about dinner time and decided to stop at McDonalds and give the kids a run around at the playground. Piled them back into to car and decided to keep driving until we found a suitable roadside stop. Got to Snowtown but we weren't too keen on stopping there. Got to feel a bit sorry for that town but all I could think about was those bodies in the barrels!
By this stage it was very dark but we were on a dual highway so we kept driving until about 10:30 and stopped at the last possible place before Adelaide called Parham Beach. It was a free camp and it was packed. The wind was atrocious but we managed to set up quickly and get to bed.
Massive day of driving for the kids, our longest ever I think, over 10 hours! They are very good at it now. Onto Adelaide the next morning.
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