Starting the Journey Home

29th June 2013

We woke pretty early this morning and said our goodbyes to Terry, Cindy & Sam before hitting the road at about 8.30am. We grabbed a coffee on the way out of town and headed for the expressway.

We decided that we would leave Adelaide via the Clare Valley, a well known winery region in SA which was about an hour & a half away. It was once again a beautiful drive, through rolling fields and into the wine region.

We made our first stop at Annie's Lane, which is rapidly becoming one of our favourite wines and after some tasting purchased a variety of wines. We then went onto Seven Hills winery, which was one of many wineries recommended by Terry & Cindy.Seven Hills Winery was just beautiful, not only for its wines but it also was within the grounds of a Jesuit Monastery.

Inside Seven Hills Winery

So Rach & I  tasted and purchased some wines while the girls played outside in the grounds of the winery, talk about responsible parenting 101, after which we got on the road again to start the move westward.

               

                                                     The grounds at Seven Hills Winery   

The rest of the day was effectively spent driving. We drove through a small town called Yacka, where we stopped for the girls to have a play in the local playground for about half an hour before once again going through Port Augusta. We quickly grabbed some fuel before pushing onto the Eyre Hwy, where we saw our first signs pointing to WA, which we were all pretty excited about.

The girls playing at Yacka

We went passed the mining town of Iron Knob, gotta love that name, late in the day before pushing on to find a bush camp for the night. We arrived just on sunset and quickly set up before having dinner and spending what turned out to be a very cold night in the van.

Passing Iron Knob (just had to put this on the blog)

Sunset from our overnight camp