1st August: packed up and left the slightly weird caravan park that was Marree-replete with its more than liberal doses of mud!

We drove back to Quorn, passing through those wonderful Flinders Ranges! We stopped at Parachilna, the Prairie Hotel for a disappointing lunch- for me some grilled haloumi with Quandong sauce- not as exciting as it sounded, and Nic had an equally unappetising kangaroo schnitzel! 

Because of the failure of our heating, I wanted to reach the chemist in Quorn to buy us some hot-water bottles. We arrived at 4.55pm for a 5pm close and I bought us 2 exorbitantly priced made in Germany hotties with horrible covers in pink tones which I hoped would keep us warm. We arrived at the caravan park in Quorn after it had closed but I was able to persuade the very nice owners to let us in!

We had rung the makers of our diesel heater, Truma, and ascertained that the issue was the temperature sensor which has been installed at ground level instead of at mid-room height and it couldn’t be fixed without professional attention. Meanwhile Nic had the brilliant idea that we actually had an air conditioner which we had never used,  and this could be used on a heat setting! So we  had heat as well as hot water bottles! To celebrate, I cooked us a mushroom risotto with salad.