The current 2023 trip, has been a long time in the planning. Myself and 3 mates are heading for Antarctica and South America.
Posts in reverse order below.
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please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment Pack up day today😵💫. After 3 nights here we have a few more things to put away. Awnings etc. Last night was the first night at this camp location we’ve actually had dew settling on the canvas, so a…
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please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment Well, today is a first! We opted to stay for another day (assuming it’s not raining and yuk.) I arose about 7.10, having successfully resisting the need to wee at 4:30am. Started the fire with no paper and then…
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please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment Today was a stay at camp day. No packing up. No pulling out. I got up and lit the fire. Col helped out. We each phaffed with various jobs around camp. Phil helped me decant almost 40 litres from…
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****please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment**** Another day, uneventful pack up, and off onto the track about 10:15-ish. A lovely dawdle along the track until one of the sand dunes provided some challenge. I was caught halfway up waiting for Stef and Meg who got…
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****please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment**** Bit of a power issue overnight, I woke to no power in the TVan and no power to the auxiliary battery in the car so I couldn’t get any water for the Billy to make a cup of tea.…
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****please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment**** Out of the park about 10:15 off to look at Pinky lookout that Mary and Col found yesterday. We saw salt ready for export at the wharf and silos. There were dolphins, a seal and cormorants. Then I went…
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Slept brilliantly last night, just took a little while to nod off. No heating required it was very mild overnight. Normal slow start to breaky. Washing done and hung out. Some phaffing jobs done, for me that was unpick the fridge cover so it can be removed, silicon the tent zip. The fellas had another…
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Leaving camp, we headed up the street to check out the horse sculpture, Bonney, by daylight and also the eagle and then ventured out to a property on the outskirts where the original horse, Clyde, was located. He was pulling a 99 year-old scoop that had been patented by the sculptors grandfather in 1927. The…
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****please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment**** A very windy night last night with camp setups being buffetted around. I think it sounded worse than it was. Lying awake listening to the wind howling in the hills and trees was pretty amazing. The Tvan was buffeted…
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***please if you comment, leave your name as mostly I can’t identify who is making comment*** Out of the park today at about 9:45 and over to have a look at Morgan wharf area. From there we headed off for our day towards Eudunda where we checked out the silo art and then headed on…
Travel adventures with Nicola & co. 