Day 64 – Parachilna to Adelaide

I woke at 6 and got up at 6:30. I showered (yes, as the advert said, the water was hot, but the taps were up high and I could JUST reach them) and dressed, then had breakfast over in the kitchen – Lynn had just finished hers. The site is the old school and we had the classroom as our kitchen. When I returned, I made the judgement that with the heavy rain and the previous road closures (and possibly more today), we would truncate the trip and head down to Adelaide. So we packed up (packing the gear in rubbish bags as it was wet) and headed down south. Through Hawker, then Quorn, and we called in at Wilmington to see the Puppet Museum. I can thoroughly recommend it as an interest and as a way to spend about an hour at least. I got some hand puppets for the children and then we headed off to Port Augusta for lunch. After lunch we headed down the main road to Adelaide with dark clouds and heavy rain on the horizon. It was a reasonable run down with showers and heavy rain, with only a few periods of dry weather. We arrived in Adelaide around 4:10 and called into Fran’s, where we will stay for a day or two. My grandnephew here (Alex) turns two tomorrow so it turned out circumstances were fortuitous – I have quite a few things for him from travelling. I wonder if he will recognise me as my hair is long and my beard is extremely bushy. We went out to tea at the local pub (cheap schnitzel night) for tea and then came home for an early night in bed.