Moving on from Murray Bridge out next destination was Adelaide. We decided to follow the Bowhill and Hunter Roads towards Blanchetown instead of driving down the M1 through the Lofty Ranges as we had planned to stay in Gawler which is on the North side of Adelaide near the Barrossa Valley wine region. This saved us going through the centre of Adelaide as there is no real freeway or bypass through or around the city like other major Australian cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, etc.... The road out mostly followed the western bank of the Murray River. We turned towards Gawler onto the A20 which is the Sturt Hwy, crossing over the Murray at Blanchetown. The modern road was fairly easy to drive, passing through the Barrossa we made a point of going back there later in the week.
Leaving Mt Gambier we started heading in a north westerly direction up towards Adelaide. The last few days have been freezing here. Would you believe our little $20.00, twenty year old fan heater was the only thing that stood between us and frostbite, it has done a great job.
We decided that 2 days was enough time to view all the attractions we wanted to see in Cowra, it was time to move onto our next destination, Canberra. We planned to stay only 10 days in Canberra but ended up extending out to 15 Nights.
Picking up the van from the service centre we headed out of Broken Hill. We followed the heavy vehicle route as we found this is the easiest (but not always the shortest) way out of town. Leaving at 2pm we decided to head for the next suitable free campspot and test run the fridge on gas.