Back to the Red Centre - the journey begins again

The journey back to the Red Centre began at 7 am as we left West Melbourne, having brought the van up from Jan Juc on the Friday. Two basketball grand finals for Caleb on the weekend for split results kept us back until late Sunday together with a farewell for friends, who will likely leave Melbourne for Adelaide before the end of the week.

The run through was hindered by strong headwinds and all manner of turbulent weather. Sleet, heavy rain and showers all punctuated the day, and added to the fuel consumption. We lunched at Kaniva and made it to Tailem Bend to refuel, before heading north to Mannum, crossing the Murray on the punt at Mannum, then making our way through the Mount Lofty ranges before stumbling across a rather spartan caravan park at Eden Valley. The night was clear, albeit a little cold. Caleb when leaving the van after dark said he’d never seen the moon so bright and called us out to see it. It was framed beautifully by a huge gnarly old gumtree – it was indeed a picture. We slept comfortably through the night.