Day 19 of our trip and we have packed up from Mildura ready to cross the border into SA. Our next stop is Burra an old Copper Mining town about a 340km trip. As we were driving through Renmark we decided to break our journey and popped into a Rotary Park to enjoy a cuppa and a bite to eat. Low and behold Clive Palmer had been there before us or is this the one he left behind!!

"That's a fine mess you've got us into Olley" no joking! We left Mildura with a full tank of petrol which should get us at least 430kms towing the van. Little did we realise the gentle sloping climb (over 2000 ft) or the slight head wind on the last part of our journey from Morgan into Burra. Sign said 83km to Burra and car gave us 154km range to go - should make it easy. 3kms out of town and we run out of petrol!!!!!! Thanks to a wonderful farmer who was popping into town for some supplies. He took Alistair to the petrol station and returned him back to the car with 5 litres of petrol so we could make it safely into town for a very hefty refill.