Forget the $7.50 a dozen oysters – how about - $7.00 a dozen!! This is the price we paid in Cowell when we arrived there for the night. But wait, yes there’s more. We went down to the fish cleaning place in the Caravan Park to shuck them and there were some local farmers there cooking up a huge pot of crabs that they had just caught. I had to return to the camper to get something I had forgotten and when I got back there we three crabs on the plate for us – Maurs had sweet-talked them out of a couple – she’s still got it! A good meal at the right price!
We were back in the 40 degree air – man it was hot. We left the next day and passed through Whyalla and Port Augusta without the slightest need for deviation, leaving the main highway in favour of a lesser road through the Flinders Ranges to Melrose where we propped for the night. Nice little town and a good van park nestled in the bush. There’s a great old building there called Jackas Brewery which closed in 1934 and is in some disrepair but still holds its character well.
The next day we carried on through to the Clare Valley and then on to the Barossa. We picked up on a small wine tour the next day and went to several smaller wineries of some repute as well as Maggie Beer’s shop/cafe. Might have stocked up on a red or two as we went along. A successful day topped off with a pub meal and as we lay in our camper that night, content with the world, it began to lightly rain.
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