Day 2

Day 2 began about 7.30am for us Adults and all the kids sleeping in until around 8am-8.30am, we headed off on a short stroll to the local tennis club and camping ground to check it all out. Wow, for a small town they have a lot, 4 tennis courts another fantastic brand new playground and next to all of this was the camping ground which is powered sites at $ 14 a night and full amenities as well as a huge shed with seats and couches with an open fire place in there. This is also where the football oval is and the local hall, yes a town with only 45 people has a hall, and they only recently had a funeral there. A short stroll back after basically seeing the whole town and then a trip out to a bizarre mallee scrub retreat called WHEREYABEEN. Built by the local fridge mechanic and everything is recyclable. Old Fridge doors become solid bush tables, a loo with a view looking out across a scenic mallee vista. A hand made slide down a sand dune, which was made from plastic sheets, kids loved this as it went really fast except that Oliver ripped his jeans and his top to bits and then Lily decides to go down and she rips her pants too. It was fun though. A 50 metre flying fox, again hand made, so what to the boys want to do, yes try it out. Oliver goes first, wow; it certainly flies fast and stops at a holt. Dylan had a go and of course Lily did too. This place was amazing, to think it was all hand built and much to our surprise a very old caravan, probably a 1950’s caravan converted into a face. Its called “The Gary Lyon”, the picture will explain. We are sending this photo into the footy show. Very funny. An 18-hole golf course is also there with each hole about 25 meters long. Everywhere you looked at this place there were different items, fake chooks of the roof and even bikes on the roof to add effects. A wombat hole with a fake wombat trapped inside.

Sheryl, Ian and their son Hugh also took us out to lake Albucutya, which hasn’t had water in it for 20 years but we saw a few kangaroos and even emu’s.  Early night as we were to take off on our next stop to a town called Burra in South Australia.