We managed to leave home slightly earlier than I had hoped after a very full couple of days
The previous day was a mad bustle of preparation activity as we pushed to have all the home and camp prep jobs completed before a small overnight visitor arrived and continued the jobs once she was in bed.
We still needed to fill gas bottles, but we know a great place to do this in Port Pirie so planned for that.
Since we are planning to catch our dinner each night the pressure was off the fridge a bit, allowing for us to bring along more fruit than usual.
We exited the city via the northern expressway and on to Port Wakefield road, then diverted to Two Wells for less expensive fuel. We used the OTR app there and ended up with diesel at $1.83.5c/litre. We needed 104 litres to fill the 140 litre tank. That should get us a fair way.
We took the back roads through Mallala, Balaklava, Mount Templeton on the Black Range Road before turning onto Salk Lake road and then Bumbunga Rd, tracking behind the lakes and entering the main highway again just before Snowtown.
From there it was the main road to Port Pirie and our dear friends.
A visit here is never long enough but we made the best of it before popping the camper, setting up the bed for the trip and settling down on a fairly warm night. Nice to have no mozzies visiting in the camper but there were a couple of very noisy frogs just outside by the fishpond. They sang duets till the sun came up then they handed over to the magpies.
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