EXCEED September/October 2018 Vol 35 No:5 | Page 44

Paul Harris Canning Stock Route and East McDonalds Diary - 22 July to 28 August 2018
Paul and Sue Harris completed the Canning Stock Route on a trip lead by Rod Chapple with his navigator
David Box. Paul and Sue then spent a week in the East McDonalds before returning to Melbourne. This is
the diary of Paul Harris from 22 July to 28 August 2018 and points may be useful for people planning a
trip.
Sunday 22 July 2018
The Trip Leader and Tail End Charlie met at the Calder Thunderdome on time, exchanged personal
details envelopes, forgot a photo and headed for to Charlton for morning tea with our first unplanned
route change after the Trip Leader missed the turn off before Bendigo. By the end of the trip the Trip
Leader had gained a solid reputation for missing important landmarks! Next stop was the bakery at
Wycheproof to buy some rolls and then lunch at Sea Lake. We then drove on, filled up at Oyen and then
onto the Citrus Valley Motel in Renmark and settled in for the night. We ventured out to the Renmark
Club for dinner and back to the motel for a game of Crowns with a terrible pack of eBay cards.
Monday 23 July 2018
Left Renmark and drove into fierce wind and rain which did no favors to the fuel consumption. We then
went to the Gaslight Café in Bura for hot drinks before moving on towards Port Augusta. Lunch was
taken in Wilmington and then we went shopping at Woolworths in Port Augusta. There was a major hold
up in the car park when the Trip Leader was trying to fit the provisions in a small fridge, whilst the hot