Five months ago to the day, we left Port Augusta on our journey North, through the Red Centre and up to Darwin. Now we were back to the start of the loop and we stopped for lunch at the Arid Lands Botanic Garden. We had last seen the gardens in Autumn so it was interesting to see the plants on flower in Spring.
The van was booked in for a service in Adelaide on the Thursday. We decided to take a new road and drove down the very scenic but very bumpy Horrocks Highway. There were lots of camping options at the little towns along the way. We stopped at Wirrabara and were the only ones there on their sports oval. These places are always good for letting Winston have some freedom without the rules of the caravan parks. We also enjoyed a stopover in the very pretty town of Kapunda, just to the North of the Barossa.
As we sat outside on a warm sunny evening, we were sure we could hear blackbirds singing and sure enough there were quite a few in the trees. We hadn’t realised there were blackbirds in Australia.
We drove up to Menglers Hill Lookout which has amazing views across the Barossa Valley. There is also a sculpture park at the lookout. Winston was in a particularly happy mood. I’m not sure whether it was the fact he’d been chasing rabbits at Kapunda or the freshly cut grass in the park.
