Join us - Mark, Penny, Fleur and Ellie - as we plan to take some time in the slow lane and circumnavigate Australia in our Larry the Landcruiser and Carrie the Caravan. This blog will hopefully serve as a diary of our trip as well as a means of keeping our family and friends up to date with our travels. We hope you enjoy the ride with us!

Sunday 2 February 2014

Mount Bryan, Peterborough, Wilpena, Cowell


Mount Bryan -tiny place with a population of only 70,  the birthplace of Sir George Hubert Wilkins an Australian Polar Explorer who was the first to land an aeroplane on ice at the artic, one of the first to fly across the Atlantic and led the first expedition to see if it was possible to pilot a submarine across the Atlantic and under the artic in 1931. It failed but paved the way for a later successful crossing.
Peterborough - Family photo looking over the plains as the sun sets. Very hot and dusty. A railway town and a stop for the Indian Pacific train on its way between Adelaide and Sydney.
Flinders Ranges National Park - Wilpena Pound. A large natural basin covering about 80 sq km, on the outside the wall rise almost sheer for 500m inside the basin slopes away like a bowl creating a natural pound for keeping stock.


Wilpena Pound at the top lookout looking into the pound.
Cowell on Franklin Harbour on the Eyre Peninsular. Fleur and Ellie jumped off the pier a few times before catching up on some school work.
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5 comments:

  1. Matthew, Eilidh, C and LMonday, February 03, 2014 7:23:00 am

    Looks very peaceful there. Hope the school work is going well. Let's have a picture of the view of the road from inside the car on the next post

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  2. MaureenThursday, February 06, 2014 4:22:00 am

    Are all the 70 people in Mount Bryan over 70 years old?
    Lovely sunset photo in Peterborough

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  3. UnknownThursday, February 06, 2014 8:06:00 am

    Hope you have found somewhere a bit cooler and can get out and about more. When do you head across the Nullabor? x

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  4. Pat BartleThursday, February 06, 2014 10:59:00 pm

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  5. Pat BartleThursday, February 06, 2014 11:02:00 pm

    We are following your blog looks great.

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