Well, Unfortunately the trip had to come to an end. On the way up i took heaps of photos and tried for a blog post per day. As what seems my normal trend on the way home, considering we are again traveling the reverse route, i have not taken as many photos, or updated the blog as much.
G’Day Mate turned out to be a great, quiet park with clean amenities. We stayed here 2 nights and really enjoyed the break from driving. We gave it a rating of 4/5.
Leaving Alice springs was nothing like when we arrived. On the way up to Darwin it was around 38/39 deg but as we left to go south it was only 17deg and raining. The rain was to stay with us for most of our drive south to Melbourne, and rather than the highs of 41deg on our northward journey we did not see the temperature rise above 21 deg on our journey south.
We ended up heading straight home rather than venture out to new areas, however we tried to target new parks. We stayed at Cadney Park station again, and surprisingly considering the Nomad traffic heading north, we were only one of 3 vans at the park that night. The flys were still there but not in their previous numbers. One highlight of this trip was having to pull right off the Sturt Highway to make way for some wide loads, 8.5m of houses. We encountered 4 of them heading into Port Augusta. We also managed to obtain the Colorado’s first stone chip in nearly 20,000km of trips.
On the second night we stayed at Port Germein. This is where we had lunch on our second day north. Unfortunately the rain set in and it blew a gale all night. That said the park was great, nice and clean and close to a nice little pub where we enjoyed a great, recommended, meal. I was planning to do a bit of fishing but the weather was bad. It was raining, very windy and the water was very choppy. I believe the jetty would not of been a very nice place to be.
From Port Germein we headed through Adelaide and on to the Bordertown caravan Park where we made our last stop. This campsite proved to be the nosiest for the trip as it was situated right on the main road. Other than the noise the park was good with very clean amenities.
From there it was a short trip home. The Colorado performed flawlessly throughout the trip, however we took a big fuel economy hit on the last couple of days due to heavy head winds. The final figures from the Gas Cubby app are below.
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