Kapunda, our home for the next five nights.

It took us less than forty minutes to pack up this morning, and today it included a trip to the waste point in order to empty the caravan toilet.   We must have have been overly slow packing up in Melrose.    Good news on the 40 minutes though, perhaps we need to aim for half an hour now.   

After coffee at our now most popular cafe we drove south in the direction of Kapunda.  It was not the most direct route but we were keen to try another road.    In this case the road went by the name of the Worlds End Highway and it took us through a little settlement called Robertstown, which had a school and closed shops, and ended at the town of Eudunda, which is about 26 km from Kapunda.

We wondered about the name of the road 'Worlds End Highway'.   Perhaps the early European settlers saw this road as leading to the end of civilisation.   Google could not tell me either.   Perhaps I need to ask a local.   

It was quite a pleasant journey, the tar sealed road was reasonably smooth.   Just an added bit of information here, for those people who do not live in Australia.   Just because the road is sealed does not mean that it is a good road, as there will be potholes, filled in potholes, rough extensions to widen the road, and grooves where trucks have indented the tarmac.   And of course there are the kangaroos and emus that pop out unexpectedly in front of you.   

In fact I ran over a dead kangaroo today, luckily it did not fasten itself to the bottom of the caravan.    I so remember the dead goat that I spent some time cleaning off the bottom of the caravan two years ago.   And yes I did get another lecture from Walter about driving over dead animals but the kangaroo was on a bend with the 'no passing line' beside it.   I was not going over to the other side of the road, to have a head on collision with a vehicle coming towards me.   One has to weigh up the consequences. 

But I digress.   Other than the town of Robertstown, it was mostly dry looking farmland, with a few sheep grazing on dry grass and crops that had already been cut.  Interestingly there were quite a few old churches which had been converted into houses.    There was a line of low hills to the right of the road, which looked very pretty, in a dry sort of way, in the morning light. 

We are now in the camping ground in Kapunda, and it is a beautiful spot, right on the edge of a large pond, with a golf course on the other side.   As well as the golf course there is a football field/cricket ground, a horse trotting course, tennis courts and a bowling ground.   And everything is green, and well watered by the looks of it.   Plus beautifully maintained.  Such a find.

The sites are spacious.   Interestingly I was not given a sheet of paper with the rules and regulations on it.  Just told to drive onto the site, and the toilets do not have codes on them.   I am so impressed with the country camping grounds in South Australia.   

                                         

Our view over the large pond.

Plus some beautiful trees.

We went for a little drive, which took us up the hill behind the town.   The view over the town.

Plus the view over the surrounding land.

I now have a little cash, just in case.   However, the machine charged me $2.90 for the pleasure of getting it.   It is impossible to win, using a card mostly incurs a surcharge, and using cash results in paying extra to withdraw it.   I realise that I need to get the cash from the supermarket when I buy groceries but I am so out of the habit of doing this.    Interestingly there are no banks in the small towns we have visited, only the banks that use the local post office.   So much has changed, with me being unaware of it all.