We thought about spending two nights at our campsite in the Morgan Conservation Reserve, but in the end we decided to push on. Our destination is the Flinders Ranges, but it really was a lovely spot we had.
We drove to Burra and went to the town and copper mine lookouts, had some lunch and kept going to Peterborough. This town has a steam place that Toby has been looking forward to, and the tourist information centre was in an old train carriage. That was pretty exciting for the kids, but it got even better when Andrew pointed them in the direction of an old steam engine they could play in.
We decided to stay a couple of nights at a property about 15 km out of Peterborough called Willangi. We paid at the tourist information centre, though the lady who served us didn’t seem to know a great deal about it and actually asked why we wanted to go there (according to her there was nothing there and lots of creepy crawlies). As far as we were concerned, the local caravan park wasn’t our style and there seemed to be no decent free camping places nearby.
So we followed our map out to the property and followed the signs on the property to the shed campsite, which is the one we were told to use as the others weren’t currently in use. We met Neil at the shed and he moved the mob of sheep that were in the paddock somewhere else, but even so we were disappointed that there was little shade and loads of fresh sheep poo around. Still, we’d paid so we started setting up the camper when a lady drove up to tell us that she had just received her message that we had come for two nights and they usually put campers for multiple nights in a different camp. It had more shade, no sheep poo and a dry creek bed for the kids to play in. We decided to pack the camper back up and move, and it certainly was a much nicer site. They supplied some wood so that we could have a fire, which we made use of and cooked our dinner on it and also had the obligatory marshmellows afterwards. We looked at the stars and listened to the wind in the trees, Andrew took some photos of the stars, and we went to bed. Ahhhh, the peace and quiet of no mobile coverage.
Playground in Morgan
Old open cut copper mine at Burra
From the open cut mine lookout
Yet another steam train to play in, at Peterborough
The human Venus fly traps
Trouble for one
Dinner
Campsite
