Jaypatrol

We leave Mildura after 2 days of looking around. We had pulled into the Buronga Caravan Park on the other side of the Murray River.

We enjoyed our time there, but will have to go back as we didn’t see all we hoped to.

We did go to Red Cliffs and check out the “Big Lizzie” and took photos.
It has a very interesting history.

We pass through Irymple, traveling on the Sturt Highway. This is a mostly long straight road to the South Australia border.

Either side of the road, there are firstly grape vines as far as the eye can see and then wheat fields as far as one can see till we come to the Sunset Country, which is the Murray Sunset National Park. This has different terrain of a type of salt bush for miles on end till we reach the SA border.

Not long after the border, we are stopped at the Quarantine Station where we surrender 2 onions and a little bit of lettuce we had left. We were allowed to keep the sweet potato we had. As we were pre-warned we made sure we used all the other fruit and vegetables before we left Mildura.

After filling the fuel tank we headed toward Renmark, turning off the Sturt Highway, we head down the B64 highway through Barmera and then onto Morgan, (following the meandering Murray River along the way), where we stopped off to have our cut lunch and a rest. Whilst there, we met a man named Ken. He told us of different places we plan to visit when we come back this way later in the year.

Leaving Morgan, we intend to aim for Crystal Brook, but by the time we get to Burra about 1.30pm South Australian time, we are weary and were intrigued by this township, so decided to spend the night at the local Caravan Park.
Here we meet some lovely folk and start to really feel like we are on our journey at last.

We wandered around the town during the afternoon checking out a little of the history; buying a little meat at the butcher shop where the original butcher was sited in the 1800’s. Arthur met a local school teacher and she told him about a tour of the town we could take after stopping off at the Information Centre to collect a key to open doors of different buildings in the town. As we are only staying here for one night, this is another must see on the way back.
Tomorrow we head for Port Augusta, passing through Crystal Brook and Port Pirie.

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