Peterborough

On Monday the 24th April, we left Marree and headed to Peterborough. On the way we stopped at the Copley bakery for morning tea, for me it was a quandong pie of course. We continued on and arrived for a late lunch and set up at the Peterborough RV Park. This RV park is a huge free camp, no facilities but toilets in town are walking distance. This is the camp and we were staying here for two nights.

Once we were sorted at camp we walked in to town. There are quite a few great old buildings in town. I have come through Peterborough a couple of times and always liked it. They look after the travelling community well by providing the RV park and good RV parking, dump point and water. I love the old pubs.

There is a train museum at the information centre. I like steam trains in action but looking at them just stationary is a bit of a bore so I wasn’t interested in going on the tour. Having said that here is a photo of a stationary steam train. They are big units.

The next morning, Tuesday the 25th April, after a nice breakfast we all went for a walk to the lookout. It was just the right distance for a decent walk. We hadn’t bothered unhitching from our vans but that worked out well as the walk was just right. It was a great view of town and the surrounding terrain.

This pano does a good job of it.

This was the decent walk up to the lookout minus the walk from the RV park to that street.

That evening whilst at camp a young family pulled in not far away from us. Four girls of varying ages piled out of the vehicle. The mum & dad were busy with all their jobs and the eldest of the girls seemed to be taking care of the littler ones on their bikes. After their set up I waved to the dad and he came over and said g’day. His wife followed soon after. We had a great chat to them. Eventually all the girls came over except for the eldest. It turns out that they had begun a journey only 10 days ago, of being full time on the road. They committed themselves to 12 months away but nothing was set in stone. It was so good to hear their story and what had led them to this point. So they are home schooling and having a ball. We have heard many times about home schooling that the family gets through the schooling part of the day in three hours. Not having to spread the teaching over about 30 kids is the key to that happening. There are numerous coincidences that happen on the road with the people you meet. It turns out that Jan & Ross wound up meeting this young family again at Broken Hill several days later. We wish that little family every good blessing.