Road Trip No.2

    Wednesday 17th July 2019

    Day 42.

    Stawell - Essendon

    Leaveing Stawell 0945 on the last leg of our trip a little early than planed but it was an experience  we saw a lot  in the 42 Days we traveled 8075 Kms used 1422.12 Lts of diesel at a cost of $2201.15 and met a lot of follow travelers some I hope we keep in contact with arriving home at 1145.
                                                                        Love
                                                                  Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Tuesday 16th July 2019

    Day 41.

    Tailem Bend to Stawell

    We have not had a start to the day like this since we left Lighting Ridge it is raining and did most of the stopping at Dimboola for lunch.

And stopping the night at Stawell.

                                                         Love 

                                                     Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Monday 15th July 2019

    Day 40.

    Crystal Brook to Tailem Bend

    To day we left the main road and traveled through the green country side and the wine area of Clare and Barossa valleys of South Australia by the same time taking a short cut to Tailem Bend.

The Flinders Rangers 

Along the country road

Willie still riding shotgun

We were not the only New Age on the road

Not far out of Angaston

The main street of Angaston

Love 

Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Sunday 14th July 2019

    Day 39.

    Woomare - Crystal Brook

Leaving Woomera at 0930 again the sky was bright and clear a little wind and it was a little cool topped up at Spuds at Pimba then out onto the highway and headed south stopping at Mountain Range View rest stop before heading onto Port Augusta for lunch and another top up of fuel then onto Crystal Brook for the night.

Mountain Range View rest stop

At the rest stop

First green grass in 38 days

Flinders Ranges

The first rain in 30 days

Love Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Wednesday 3rd July 2019

    Day 28

    Camooweal - Barkly Station

    Today we started of at the usual time of 1000 and we went for a little drive around the free camp site just out of town at what is know the Francies Billabong or No 1 Billabong then as we got onto the highway and got about 5 Kms down the road I notice the low coolant warning apear on the dash so we returned to Camooweal and got 5Lts it took just over a litre we the may our way to Barkly Station with on more problems arriving at 1400 booked in set up then checked the coolant we had lost about another litre.

Road Trip No.2

    Saturday 13th July 2019

    Day 38.

  Coober Pedy - Woomera

    On the road again we left Coober Pedy at 0945 heading for Woomera down Highway 87 even though we where further down the road the scenery was still the same flat barren and dry the only thing that we notice was that there was less road kill than two years ago and have not seen a kangaroo or Emu this side of Mount Isa and less Eagles as well.
We stopped at Glendambo for lunch and a top up some people try to make it to the next fuel stop hoping the price will be cheaper and they run out of fuel half way. Arriving at 1450 and did a load of washing the bar opened at 1600 so we went and had a couple of drinks with our travelers.

R.F.D.S. air strip Between Coober Pedy and Glendambo Hwy(87)

Eldery cyclist heading north Pimba to Glendambo Hwy 87(over65)

Lake Hart

Lake Johnston

Road stop at Coober Pedy

Opal mining field Coober Pedy

Egale in flight

End of to days drive

Eagle at tucker time

Love

Len and Val

Road Trip No 2.

    Friday 12/7/2019

    Day 37.

    Coober Pedy

    Today was another day of sitting in the sun and relaxing and just waiting for the phone to ring
when 1600 camewe decieded to walk down and see how it was going val was Optimistic I was not on arriving Bull said sorry I have lost your phone number but I knew you would come Val said is it good news or badhe said good you should have the look on Vals face mine would have been much the same so it was top up with fuel get a pizza on the way home have a beer watchthe footy and tomorrow we are out of here.

                                                    Love
                                              Len and Val

Road Trip No 2.

    Thursday 11th July 2019

    Day 36.

    Coober Pedy

    This is day 5 in Coober Pedy a little cool in the morning but warms up to a pleasant 21 degrees and no dust today walk down to see what progress has been made on the car the part as arrived from Adelaide and he hoped to have it finished today well 1700 came and no phone call so hopefully it will come tomorrow if not we will be here till monday at the best we then finished our walk by visiting the Italian Australia Members Club.
After lunch we empty the potty but we had to walk it across the main street to the dump.
Val went with another at the park down to the Catholic Church of St Peter and St Paul in the main street.
Then finished the day with a loverly dinner of roast lamb and baked potatoes Val a glass of wine and myself a VB

Coober Pedy from the hill top

Another scene of Coober Pedy

And another Scene

Inside the St Peters anmd St Pauls Church

Another one

And the out side

Love Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Wednesday 10th July 2019

    Day 35.

    Coober Pedy

    Just a day of wind and dustwe just sit and wait nothing else to do we have seen everything and if you go outside for a walk around town all you get is dust even the flys are not around it's to dusty for them.

The main Street

Just over the front fence of the caravan park

Over the road from the park

Love

Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Tuesday 9th July 2019

    Day 34.

    Coober Pedy

    Well today just after breakfest it was down to the supermarket to get supplies at 0900  before I dropped the car off to see what was wrong with it at 1000 then just sat in the sun till just after lunch when the garage rang and gave us better news then what was thourgh it would be it was a leak in the thermostat housing and it could be ready by thursday. At 1730we went for pre dinner drinks at happy hour and had dinner at the pub.

Road Trip No.2

    Monday 8th July 2019

    Day 33.

    Coober Pedy

    This morning we went to the see the mechanic to see what the go was with the car he was to busy today but fitted us in for tomorrow to have the car down there around 1000 oclock.
After that we came back to the park and just sat in the sun till 1730 we then went to the pub attach to the caravan park for happy hour where Val won $30 in the lucky tickets and spin a wheel then back to the van for dinner.

Road Trip No.2

    Sunday 7th July 2019

    Day 32.

    Marla - Coober Pedy

    A early start to the day after checking coolant and filling up with fuel and coolant we set out for Coober Pedy nothing to see apart from a couple of cows crossing the road and at least 400 caravans heading north but when we got 34 Kms from Coober Pedy the went into limph mode so it was a stop on the side of the road wait till the car cooled down a little and the top it up with coolant it was then a gentle drive into town at 70 KPH and may it OK. After checking into the Opal Inn they advised us that there was a mechanic at a garage at the the main street so we went and saw him and he said he would try to get us in on Monday and for us to check.

Just straight roads the same as all the rest

Road signs

Love

Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Saturday 6th July 2019

    Day 31.

    Road side south Alice Springs - Marla

  By the time we woke up most of the road side campers had gone and only five where left after breakfest and checking the coolant it was south to the South Australian boarderwith a stop at Stewarts Creek for a camel shoot then to Kulgera the last pub in the Territory for lunch.
Then on to Marla for the night.

Car park come Caravan Park at Kulgera pub lineing up for fuel 

Bar of the Kulgera pub

Was a vistor at the pub one morning 

Just one for the road

Into South Australia

Different State same road

Love len and Val

Road Trip No 2

    Friday 5th July 2019

    Day 30.

    Tennant Creek - Alice Springs

    After the mechanic at Tennant Creek said that could not do anything for us about the leak we decided to go to Alice Springs as our Dongle had thrown in the towel also we figured we could make the springs by 1630 as it was we made it by 1600 on the way we rang the Winter Sun Caravan Park to see if we could get a place for the night but no luck only to be told that there were no places in the the town at all it was booked out then when we got into town I knew where the Telstra shop was when we got to the shopping centre the only shop that was open was Woolworths the reason it was Show day and it was a public holiday it was then decided it was a free camp so a top up of fuel and south we headed 20Kms out was a rest stop but had a sign Do Not camp here for your safety at the end of the rest stop was another nex rest stop 25Kms and it had telephone service so that was where we headed on there there was a camper van there so we pulled up behind them introduced ourselves and settle in for the night.

The Devils Marbles

We where not the only New Age on the road

Young Couple on a Russian made bike

The  rugged sky line of the Territory

Borrow Creek Hotel

Check out the memorabilia at the Borrow Creek Hotel

Memorabilia behind the bar

Sign said it all

At the bar of the Borrow Creek Hotel

Aileron way side stop

Sunset rest stop 50Km south of Alice Springs

Love Len and Val