Unshackled Adventures

Never a dull moment on Unshackled Adventures… this time, another detour from the plan.

From Pooncarie, we rolled on along the now fully sealed road to Menindee, cutting across vast stations and open country. It didn’t take long for one thing to dominate the conversation — the sheer number of feral goats. They’re everywhere out here.

After leaving Murbko, our next stop was Berri to have the caravan suspension recall checked out. Thankfully everything was given the all-clear, and we were free to continue onto the next leg of our adventure — tackling the Darling River Run.

With a recall booked on our Cruisemaster caravan suspension—and the earliest appointment a week away in Berri—we began slowly making our way in that direction.

After a few days in Moonta catching up on cleaning, restocking, and general maintenance, we set our sights on Crystal Brook and Bowman Park, an RV stop just 5km east of town.  According to WikiCamps, it was a simple day-use park—open sunrise to sunset—with toilets, playgrounds, and nature trails. What we found, however, was far more than we expected.

On the next leg of our Yorke Peninsula journey, we farewell Moonta and return to what we love most—coastal camping—with Daly Head as our first stop.

After an unexpected mix up in our beach camping bookings we stumbled across Moonta.  This township was definitely not on our proposed travel itinerary for the Yorke Peninsula but as they say “things happen for a reason”.  And that it did becoming one of our peninsula travel highlights!!

Prior to reaching the peninsula, Mrs Unshackled had pre-booked several camps over the busy Easter period and into the South Australian school holidays starting 11 April. At the time, we had no idea that rising fuel prices—driven by conflict in the Middle East—would shift travel plans for many Australians.

Unshackled Adventures have now been on the road for four months — covering roughly 10,000 km so far.