Watson Walkabout 2021

In Melbourne we had a very relaxing time staying with my sister and her family for a few days, caught up with some lovely old friends, and enjoyed good coffee. Compulsory visit to the AFL at the MCG.  An incredibly athletic sport! Slightly suspect action from the boundary umpire. Walking along the bay. Beach huts at Brighton. We missed out on a visit to Wilson's Prom thanks to the tail-end of the rain storms from NSW - gale force winds and driving rain not our preferred option. Another time... So instead we headed north again, to the Victorian High Country and back towards NSW. Our first puncture. On a dirt road, mile from anywhere, we managed to find a gyprock screw. . Fixed the old-fashioned way! Awesome views from the tops of hills.  The vegetation varies enormously from huge gum trees in the valleys to grass and stumpy trees on the high plains, with tiny alpine wildflowers. Camping at about 1500 meters - it was very cold! Alpine meadows. We found some old huts - most of th...

Looking across Wilpena Pound at the south end of the Flinders. We headed southwards from the Flinders Ranges through increasingly vegetated land and into the Yorke Peninsula.    We stayed a couple of nights, one on the west coast and then on the east.    Most of the peninsula is miles and miles of deadly boring barley fields but the coastlines are amazing.    Super-long beaches and occasional rocky headlands. Our second campsite had a very sociable evening Happy Hour where we mingled with a couple of dozen Grey Nomads over beer and sausages. Endless barley fields on the Yorke Peninsula. Some of the amazing beaches. We then headed into Adelaide.    Due entirely to chance rather than planning, it was a long weekend that coincided with the Adelaide Festival / Adelaide Fringe and WOMADelaide.   All the campgrounds were booked out so  we ended up in an AirBnb instead of a caravan park and enjoyed normal beds for the first time in a month...