Driving down Black Gap Road Flinders Ranges

These are some still shots taken on m,y trip with Jim in August 2020.

Trip to Flinders Ranges-Getting there. Day 1.

Last week I went on a trip for 3 nights and 4 days with my good friend Jim from Freeling. We had one night in Orroroo and two nights in Hawker,
We were heading for South Australia's iconic Flinders Ranges.
I picked up Jim from his Freeling farm and we headed for Orroroo a small South Australian country town.
We stopped at Morgan and Peterborough on the way.
A highlight in Peterborough was buying a milk shake in the old Capitol Picture theatre cafe.
We stayed in Kangaroo Cottage at Orroroo that night which I would recommend as a very nice place to stay.
Here are some pics from day one.
I intend to create some youtube videos from this trip.

Approaching Freeling

Much photographed ruin near Burra

Hampsead village Burra

Capitol Theatre Peterborough

 

Near Ororroo. An illusion to some.

Our accomodation in Orroroo.

https://blackjackgetaway.com.au/kangaroo-cottage 

Foggy Adelaide

We have had a couple of cold days here in Adelaide and some significant fog.
Here are some pics.

The Overland Experience

If you have grown up in Melbourne or Adelaide and you are a so called Baby Boomer(born immediately after the second world war) then you will have
more than likely in your youth traveled on the Melbourne Express. The train that connects Adelaide and Melbourne.
It is now called the Overland.
It used to be a night time journey but now it travels in the day time.
It takes a whole day to travel between the 2 cities.
Read all the details here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overland

Adelaide(in South Australia) and Melbourne( in Victoria) have long associations that go back many years.

This last Friday I traveled on the Overland and disembarked at North Shore Geelong.
Not quite to Melbourne.
Hera re some picks I took from the moving train and some as my friend and I traveled home by road the next day..