Left blustery Whyalla heading inland to Crystal Brook (188kms), foothills to the Southern Flinders Ranges. A very pretty drive with views to the ranges. Crystal Brook is a small town of about 1800 people but a nice town with lots of history. A wonderful antique/curio store houses the information bureau. Everything they sell is on consignment and there were some real gems like Royal Albert tea sets, the old slider viewers we all had as kids, hand held meat mincers, those old fashioned really thick porcelain mixing bowls, Enid Blyton books, easy to spend a lot of time in there. Not a lot to do in Crystal Book it is more of an overnight stop. The caravan park was a bargain at $18/night, amenities very clean and not many people. The only downside was that it was very dusty with the wind following us from Whyalla that night so the inside of the van now needs a good dust. We cooked our snapper on the weber tonight and it was just beautiful, thanks Graham.
(John's turn) Now for those interested in stats or curious as to actual costs because one day you want to do something like this, here goes:-
Over 18 weeks we have travelled 12,091Km's. spent $3,939.38 on fuel using 2,767.73L. Now according to my maths that means we are spending $218.85 per week (not bad as we only budgeted for $150 a week, although the North West of WA was heavy in distance now that we are on the East coast we expect these averages to decrease) fuel is costing on average $1.423/L, we average 670km's per week, and stay 3.5 days per stop. All this in a 1992 Mits Pajero with serious wind resistance on the roof and a 2.5 tonne van. This all gave us on average 12.78mpg or 22.84L per 100Km's.
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