hesso to coffin bay

hesso station

hesso station, road through middle

hesso station from transmission tower

tonights dinner, fresh goat

the vennables arrived on the fri night and had a great week end on the station , more goats , more beers, more reds, all good , photos to follow. left hesso and cruised down to cowell( via pt augusta) and stayed there the night to catch up on some washing etc after a lot of camp fires at hesso station.left cowell heading to tumby bay calling into arno bay,ellis beach on the way, raining most of the way. arrived at tumby bay earliy arfo to catch up with pauline searle ( nee pauline holland from portage road for those who can remember) set up camp at there place for the night and had a nice goat curry, (fresh from the station cooked by sue)and some more red of course,very civalized. left pauline and husband dan and are now at coffin bay national park which is just great. just have to pay $7.00 once only entrance fee ( sorry $9.00 for non consession card holders) and then $7.00 per night as long as you want. we have long drop toilets here and that is all so this is our first long stint at free camping,(pretty much up to now its been op's power) , ie no power, water etc so will see how long batterys etc last. will be heading of on sat 8th to elliston caravan park for a powered site so i can see the fords win at bathurst and south africa beat the wallabies. will download pictures at that point when we are all charged up again. Patrol going well, have been playing with the gas gets and at present geting 12.46 lit per hundred on the diesel , on the way up from adelaide it was 12.8 but had a strong head wind , 14.44 lit per hundred including gas at that point. havent put gas in agian yet to work out total usage but more than happy with fuel consumption at present, battery low cheers to all ian

hesso longweekend

local wild life

cleaning the water troughs hesso station

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spider bites ontop of transmission tower hesso station

We are now at Edith's and Joel's arriving here yesterday. It's 53kms north from Port Augusta on a sheep station of the Stuart highway. Today Joel took us both out to show us the property and Ian helped him to clean the sheep troughs. There's 24,000 sheep on this 1,500sq km station and we have been doing stuff very much out of the norm. He also shot a couple of wild goats and at present they went back out to shoot for a duck or too and more goat for the rotisserie for tea tonight . Wayne and Lorraine are on the road right now travelling here as it is a longweekend this weekend. The weather here is very wild and woolly i think the men would be shooting in between storms. We have had plenty of wind and rain with hail included. Seems like winter. We will be leaving here probably around Sunday and heading for Tumby bay. Hopefully the weather will improve as the wind makes it harder to tow the caravan.

sunday 25 Sept.

hi dear friends and family all good as you can see Spear Creek Sheep Station just outside Pt Augusta. Arrived here around 3pm. after leaving Paskeville with our friend Paul Smith. Had a great time with him for 3 nights. Did a tiki tour of Monnta, Walleroo and Port Hughes how that has all changed. Saw the Dunes golf course that Greg Norman has dibs in. Very much like Hindmarsh Is and a bit too plastic for me. As it turned out Paul's neighbours that are really good people had family from Brisbane for Joan's 61st birthday which we attended. Spent a lot of time socialising with the locals which is what we do best. Caught up with Paul's daughter Belinda and son Mark. Even got invited for coffee and scones this morning by a couple before heading off and invited back anytime whether Paul is there or not. Will stay here 2-3 nights what a top place on the edge of the Flinders Rangers amongest all the gum trees and very peaceful. Has been closed here for the last couple of years re-opened in June we were reccommended to visit here by a girl i worked with. Can certainly reccommend it ourselves a bit of the track but not by much. There is a map so you can see. We will go and visit Joel Vennables on our way through to Tumby Bay. Travelling well did have to stop on the way to Paskeville as we heard an almighty noise had a look and Ian thought the turbo had gone but lucky for us it was the turbo hose not clamped on tight enough blew off.

ian and sue aussie adventures

hi there to all our friends and family all good tennants in our house and we are at the moana caravan park hope to head of on Thursday north as ian is waiting on new glasses will keep you posted love sue xx