Last night we pulled into Horsham, one of our favourite Victorian towns, to find that one of Australia’s top Indian restaurants—–appropriately located in Firebrace Street—–was closed on Monday nights.
Although overnight the temperature dropped to 3 degrees, today (Tuesday) has been a beautiful day for travelling with sunny blue skies above, no wind and it took all day for the temperature to finally rise to a warming 20C.
Today we covered 399kms to arrive in another of our favourite Aussie places—-Hahndorf—-in the Adelaide Hills, with an idyllic parking spot under the Camphor Laurel trees in a park in Mt Barker.
And what you may ask does the SA town have in common with the twin of the same name in WA?
A Captain Collett Barker discovered the S.A. Mt Barker Summit in 1831, but unfortunately he got killed by aborigines a couple of days later at the mouth of the Murray River. Therefore Captain Charles Sturt named the SA town after Barker. Similarly, a Scottish RN surgeon TB Wilson was exploring northward of the Albany region in WA two years earlier in 1829 with the said Captain Collett Barker and nominated the pommie soldier’s name be applied to the great southern township.
Following a few days here in the Adelaide Hills (home I might add of Alexander Downer) we plan a few more days spent in the lovely Clare further north, before heading off for delicious whiting fillets at the Port Hotel in Ceduna and the journey across the treeless plains of the Nullabor.
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