Well as the photos below mention, we have finally started our trip to Denham and back. We traveled from Melbourne to Mildura on the first day, staying for the night at the Big4 Mildura Deakin Holiday Park. Although it was just for an overnights stay the park is well kept, clean and quiet.
We made the trip up quite well, stopping only for fuel and lunch. When we arrived at the park we had two of our neighbors come straight over to inform dad that something was not right with his camper. A weird, concerning, sound was coming from one of his wheels. Upon inspection we found the wheel bearing dust cover had come loose and was floating around under his hub cap. We were lucky this was all it was but we will keep an eye on this over he next few days. Due to this we inspected all the wheels again on both my van and dads and found no further issues.
The customary first nights tea of slow cooked silverside was eaten by all then after a few quite drinks it was off to bed.
After an early start on day 2, 8:30am, we headed off to Port Augusta. Our first stop for the day was at Renmark where we went to a local bakery for brunch. We all had an assortment of pies, sausage rolls and a chilli kransky that was done up like a sausage roll. After a stroll down to the river and around the block it was back into the car as we still had a fair distance to travel for the day. One point for next time is that the Renmark Big4 looks to be nice park and will be the subject of a return visit in the future.
The second stop for the day was for fuel at Burra. Not much to say here.
We arrived at our stop for the night, Nuttbush Retreat, just out of Port Augusta as you head for Ceduna. The park is quite basic but the amenities are good and it's a quite enough park. We had our first barbecue for dinner, but we were left cooking in the dark due to the time we got in and set up camp.
The weather has been about 18deg with some rain in Mildura in the morning. The commodore has been running on mostly LPG with about 22 L/100KM. Although this might seem high, I am towing a caravan up some quite hilly roads at an average of 90KM/Hr.
Edit 10/6/11
As promised, here are two more photos i wanted to post, Bianca and Caitlyn enjoying the scenery
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