Monday – Starting the trip home 5/4/21

After breakfast we introduced Peter and Belinda to “ mountain goats“ played with the ability to split the dice into as many groups as you like. This meant the game worked better than on our first play.

They taught us to play “Alhambra”- a game where you build a walled city, aiming for the longest wall. This was a pretty enjoyable game.

A cyclist came through on an electric mountain bike and stopped for a chat.

Peter and Belinda had to pick up kids at Melrose at 2 pm so we were rushing to be packed up in time and drove out together, with them opening and us shutting the gates along the track.

They headed off along the bridle track with the trailer in tow. We headed towards Owen.

First stop was Terowie Gorge where we parked and went for a short walk on this hot day, and failed to locate the position of the spring. ( there don’t seem to be tracks leading to it).

We proceeded on via the back roads, only travelling about 100 m on the highway, via, Napperby, Crystal Brook, the outskirts of Red Hill, close to Brinkworth and through the edge of Balaklava.

We detoured briefly past the partially completed silo painting before pulling in to Rodney’s yard just before 5pm.

After a much enjoyed cuppa and shower we headed off to have another look at the silo and to eat dinner at the Owen Arms.

We helped Rodney to complete his 500 piece jigsaw before heading to bed.