On to Clare Valley

We woke and found ourselves in a beautiful location close to the inlet.  The boys quickly rigged up their rods and weren't seen again for quite some time!  Chad lost his float and it headed 'upstream' - he wasn't keen to jump in to swim for it.

The only down-side to this location was the ants, although only small they did still bite and between swishing flies and flicking ants off your feet it became a bit of a dance! The caretaker likes to feed the local kangaroos to be able to show them off to the overseas tourists. However, we couldn't keep still so we didn't stay for long.

While Axel slept Mars went down to the little beach where he could watch the boys fishing. Eventually we all joined him and then stayed long enough to set up the umbrella and all go for a swim. It was beautiful! The crabs were especially friendly, swimming right up to us on the shoreline! A bit too close with those claws!

While we were swimming the tide changed and began to head out. As we were watching the clumps of seaweed head out we saw Chad's float! With some encouragement he did go out and grab it.

We eventually managed to drag the boys away from fishing and the beach. We packed up the van in the heat and took the track back out to the main road. As we headed out we had an emu 'racing' us!

We took the scenic drive through the hills along Horrocks Highway to Clare. It was very picturesque and a mixture of vineyards and wheat farms.

As we drove we could see the clouds coming in and at one point the outside temperature dropped from 39 degrees to 29 degrees during a shower of rain. Once the rain stopped it quickly went back up to 39 again.

We camped at the Clare Valley Race Course.  We were looking forward to a nice hot shower but the water wasn't on so we didn't get to enjoy that! It was just a quick wash behind the caravan again.

... and they're off and racing!!!

Mars getting into the spirit of things! 

At about 8.30pm we experienced a massive thunder storm with lots of lightning and rain.  It was fantastic!  However the kids weren't as happy about the experience!  Eventually we all got to sleep, although it was a pretty average night all round!