Monday Dec 3rd. I laid awake for a good part of the night. In my mind, the site we were in shrunk and I was not going to be able to extract the van without losing a wheel down a hole, or running into the large pipe from the large concrete water tank next to the site. I got up during the night and went outside and saw that the exit from the site ...

Day Four: - Mt Gambier - Robe - Kingston - Meningie - Strathalbyn - Victor Harbor It's finally got me Wilson. Feels like someone's driven a golf club into my adam's apple. The weakness is beginning to take a hold too and the coughs are tight and suffocating. Swallowing my own saliva is becoming a huge ordeal (it's 'in my ears'!) and I'm lifeless...

This section of the drive followed the Coorong National Park - a 100km long saline lagoon. It has the biggest breeding colony of pelicans in Australia, so we stopped off to say hello. They are fantastic birds - they take a bit of getting off the ground / water but once they get going they are incredible in the air. Wouldn't challenge one to a co...

Today I bypassed the city and headed for the coast and Glenelg and south to Jervis Bay, across to Victor Harbor, Goolwa and back up to Stirling and Adelaide. It took all day and I caught up with a couple I worked for when I lived in Mt Gambier. They have retired to Victor Harbour and loving it although they are heading off again overseas for 3 m...