Jan 2nd- In To The Oven
Since we've last updated the blog we've put the van into hyperdrive and manage to hop from Victoria, through South Australia and all the way to the Northern Territory. Now this wasn't our intended, and as it turns out foolhardy, plan but after thinking ahead and counting our dwindling funds we decided to omit Western Australia from our travel plans, much to our disappointment. We also slashed Kangaroo Island from our itineraries ($400 ferry and limited booking space, booo!) so that left us no where to go but up! Enough about what we didn't do, let's talk about what we did do! From Portland we crossed over to South Australia, or tried to! What we didn't know when we did our grocery shop that day was there is an interstate quarantine on all fruit and vegetables. We reached the quarantine bins and couldn't bear to part with our mangoes and apples so we turned around and camped right on the border and ate a lovely fruit salad for dinner. Our mood was d...