Still powering through South Australia

We're at Port Augusta tonight, and here is the slightly unnerving view at the caravan park:

Barbed wire? Really? That's a first for us in terms of caravan park security. It makes me wonder whether they are trying to keep someone out or trying to stop us from leaving!

Anyway, thankfully the rest of South Australia has been much more welcoming to the Suzy Q explorers.

After the Coorong we made a stop at Murray Bridge to see some paddle steamers and houseboats on the mighty river. We also had a quick scout around for Max's plastic rake which floated away in the Murrumbidgee in Victoria, and we are pretty certain would be in the Murray by now!

Town Hall at Angaston

 No luck with the rake unfortunately, so we drowned our sorrows (metaphorically) in the Barossa.

There were some lovely little towns to drive through, some nice buildings to admire and some yummy produce. The kids didn't mind a quick wine tasting at Angaston, as there was a basket of toys and books which hold great appeal when you're restricted to only one box of toys for six months on the road! They did mind the Barossa cheese shop though, which had a rather pungent odour of goat's cheese - they sat outside for that one!

Hanging about at Port Adelaide

After a night at Nuriootpa, our next Port of call (!) was Port Adelaide. We hadn't explored the 'port' on our previous trips to Adelaide and quite liked it, although it was very quiet as school has just gone back. We stayed on Semaphore Beach and had a lovely relaxing day catching up with our Adelaide friends, the Wallaces (thanks guys!)

The Pier at Sephamore

And then today, the drive north to Port Augusta. We're about to hang a huge left and head west, west, west....

The big boys have just looked at our giant map of Australia and realised exactly how far west we have to go before we get into the areas of southern WA we are keen to explore. They are googling car games as I write this!