Border village to Fraser Range station

After a nice night at Border Village, a very basic overnight stop, we headed off to as far as we could get in a day.

Border village was the first place where we (the kids) encountered the pay per use shower. It was $2 for 10min which was more than enough. The next night, at Fraser range it was $1 for 5min, so half as long for them as we only give them the one coin ;) these showers are long enough, I just need to get something like this at home for their bathroom.
Anyways, after we set up in Border village and had tea we walked up to the roadhouse to the dinner and bought the kids dessert. Then, as it was so dark, we all went to bead. The other thing that is causing us issues is the changes in time, we have had 3 time changes in the last 4 days. Therefore after waking up at 4:30 am, I simply waited for the others to catch up.


The day started off great, funny anyways, with a stop at the quarantine centre at the SA/WA border. We had used up all of our fruit and vegetables and stated so, but the inspector still needed to look through the car and caravan. Whilst they were doing this I mentioned we might have some tomato. We had some left from lunch the previous day and I could not remember throwing it out. They went through the fridge with a torch and could not find it so we were free to go. Later, at lunch time, I reached into the fridge, without looking, and found the tomato ;)


We had a few stops on the way, mainly for fuel, and spent most of the day searching for the "bottle tree" which we did not find. We had a bottle all set up as well.
We had planned to stop at Balladonia road house but as we still had plenty of light left we decided to head for Fraser Range station. This proved to be a great decision as it was well off the road, cheap ($28 per site for the night) and it had a central camp fire. We spent most of the night around this fire with most of the other people camped here. It was the best night of the trip so far.




One of the things that allowed us to set up late in the day was the fact we had cooked our tea at Border Village. We cooked a nice beef stroganoff in the slow cooker which also used up all of our vegetables.