Southern Flinders Ranges

After staying the night in Clare we headed out to a couple of free camps sites around Koolunga – the first one was okay but a bit open at the edge of town so we pumped in the next coordinates for the one by a creek that was supposed to be about 10 minutes away.  It initially led us to a dead end as it couldn’t find the road so we pumped other details in to the GPS and ended up practically driving round in a huge circle which took about 45 minutes!  When we finally got there, it wasn’t that exciting …. certainly not the description that the Camps 6 book or the info I had found online led us to believe. 
We ended up driving across the creek to an area behind the reserve which is obviously used for trail bikes or motorcross.  We parked up and got the washing all dry and Mal mucked round doing a few things.  The weather was absolutely awesome – sunny and 30 degrees.  Chip had fun exploring though managed to find some sort of ‘poo’ somewhere and got that all through his paws (and dare I say by the smell of his breath ate it too)!!!  Here is a piccie of our spot – Mal reckons it looks like we are camping in a rubbish dump!

We woke up last night just before midnight to rumbling thunder…and then light rain.  Given we had driven across a very low bridge over the creek we were worried that it would flood if there was any significant rain, so we packed up by moonlight and drove back across the other side.  There were some campers already set up over there so we sneaked around hoping not to wake them up.  As the slideout was then on the road side (and we were on the edge of the road) we slept with the bed pulled in and almost slept standing up due to the angle of the caravan! 
We left after a quick breakfast and stopped off in a rest area to have a shower (so the caravan was level) and sparked up the generator so that I could blow wave my hair – funny how the simplest of pleasures can mean so much!!!  We are heading in to Port Pirie shortly to do a bit of shopping and then head out for dinner with some friends.  We will stop for the night there and then head through to Whyalla to catch up with some other friends before finally hitting the beach down the other side of the Spencer Gulf.