Mt Remarkable National Park

Mount Remarkable National Park is proving to be just the spot we need, providing us with a clean peaceful environment. This park has fantastic clean facilities-hot showers, clean toilets, Adelaide drinking water which we are able to connect to from our van. There are 54 sites with the road running between the sites. With our SA pass it is not costing us anything to camp here.

The park is halfway between Pt Pirie and Pt Augusta. We tend to go for a drive 2/3 times a week-visiting the country towns, farmers markets, etc.

It is a very high fire risk season, so we have worked out our fire escape plan. The ranger has told us he will know when a fire is coming long before the radio station. We have our grab bag in the truck so feel relatively safe.

There are numerous walks/tramps/hikes/treks. We try to do one every 2^nd day-it takes me a day to get over them… Murray is doing well with the tramps and has managed the 18km Hidden Valley trek. I have done a 1/3^rd, but did manage the 7km hike and a 2km hike, but this one put me off as it was my first experience with an eastern brown snake – on the track!

We are reading a lot of books, I am knitting and learning to sketch birds. There are 118 varieties here and I often sit under the trees watching the kookaburras attacking the lace monitor lizard Muldoon as he moves about the hollow trees searching for their nests. The willy wag tails in turn attack the kookaburra as he tries to steal their young chicks. Muldoon scavenges on the ground for camper’s crumbs and baby lizards.

Emus, kangaroos and euros appear all the time and move around the sites.

Summertime is the quiet time for the park so Murray and I are often the only campers here.  We have no trouble filling in the day-by the time we get up 8am!, have breakfast and do our chores-Murray is constantly shifting the solar panels around, time for lunch, then perhaps an afternoon nap, 5sies, we get the dinner ready before we have 5isies, (that way we have the ingredients correct)??? Murray cooks, then a game of scrabble, lights out between 9-11pm, depending on whether we are meeting other campers.