8th Sept 2014
Moved on to Dartmoor, yeah another free camp beside the river called Fort O’Hare. This was named by the explorer Major Mitchell who set a camp here on the junction of the two rivers, Glenelg & Crawford. This was Major Mitchells third expedition in which he named the Glenelg river after exploring the Murray, The Grampians ,and then following the Glenelg down to the sea.

Major winds here at the moment gusting up to 80k so glad not to be on the road at the moment.

Dartmore has carvings in wood adorning their main street commemorating world war one servicemen and women. The carvings are life size, carved from the old trees by a chainsaw sculptor, Kevin Gilders. The Atlantic Cedar trees that lined the road had become old and dangerous. Other carvings have been done on bollards, animals and such from the area, and a work of art has been carved into the remains of a massive cypress. Hope the locals were cooking fish on that day …. Don’t get it, fish and chips, chips of the cypress … funny Ha Ha …
It’s still windy – no TV at this location. I noticed the houses close by had fringe type aerials on long poles, meters high. Interesting that internet and mobile phones work fine. Maybe places like this should be provided with free to air TV signals via an internet relay.. Sounds possible..

We will be rocked to sleep by the wind tonight ..