Berri

We made it to Berri on Saturday-we had planned to stop a night in Nuriootpa then come on, but arrived there round 1.30 and figured another 1 1/2 hours would get us here and we'd stay four nights instead of three. This is a huge caravan park , but once again it is really quiet-according to the cleaner I was talking to, it will go nuts on Boxing Day and stay like that for a few months, so she is enjoying the quiet like us. The road between Port Wakefield and Nuriootpa is THE worst sealed road we have ever taken the caravan on. It was so bumpy we travelled most of it at around 60km per hour.

I got my rabbits in Ardrossan (and a few more!). A friend suggested I wouldn't be able to leave the two we bought alone until we got them home, and I thought about it so bought another fresh one to eat on the Sunday. That left two in the display cabinet which the butcher offered to me for $8.95. When I refused, he knocked them down to $5 each so I took them too. Last night I cooked the fresh one in mustard cream and I have to say it was the best rabbit I have ever cooked or eaten. It was moist and tender and delicious.

Yesterday we took a drive to Loxton and Renmark stopping at fruit stalls and a church fair along the way. We stopped at the Berri shop as well, so are stocked with avocados, pumpkins (big butternuts for $1 each) jarred peaches, fruit juices, tinned tomatoes etc. Today is haircut day and then out to the other side of town here to more fruit stalls and wineries. I'm trying to track down an asparagus grower as I saw local stuff in a shop. If not, we bought it cheap in a 5 kilo bag in Mildura a few years ago ( we go to Mildura Wednesday morning).