Day 30 (30/9 Thurs) – Adelaide to Mount Remarkable NP

Huge load of washing his morning plus many phone calls to tyre and caravan places in search of the right tyres for the car and the appropriate bits of plumbing stuff. Would you believe that because our Prado is the base model GX it comes with steel rims. Not the usual size rims that all other prados have! Oh no, ours are “unusual”. After being told apprpriate tyres would have to be ordered from Melbourne, we tried a place in Port Augusta – not only do they have the right size in stock, but they frequently fit his size tyre to various government vehicles passing through, so will be able to drive there from our (hopefully wild NP) camp site tomorrow. Also finally found a caravan spares place. When we got there Chris’s comment was “this is an Aladdin’s cave for caravans”. Everything you could possibly need available, including the push-pull plumbing fittings and check valve required for our little problem. Suddenly everything seems to be going right again. Still have feeling of impending doom about finding a free camp site though…….
Crawled out of Adelaide (traffic horrendous in the middle of the day) and then belted up the A1. Picnic lunch in Port Wakeleigh then onward. Arrive Mambry Creek campground ~3.45pm. Looked pretty crowded…… Ran into a “camp host” who told us to have a look around but it was looking pretty full…… Found a free site!! Whoo hoo! Set up camp, had a quick look around then cracked a bottle of Pinot Gris and set the fresh flathead fillets to BBQing (started off with 1/2 doz fresh oysters – yum!). Life’s pretty tough when you’re roughing it!