After a blustery night we awoke at 6:30 and packed up in the rain to get outta Mount Gambier at 8:30.  A quick refuel saw us heading towards Naracoorte.  Hmmm … not Robe … we were supposed to head to Robe.

Another day of hugging the coast with the wind and the rain wasn’t really appealing.  Meanwhile the brochure for the Naracoorte Caves was looking mighty good.  An almost inside activity in this weather seemed like a godsend.  So off we went…

Given that our fuel economy while driving manually and trying to stay around 100km/h was a little scary, I wanted to try out cruising at 80km/h as a comparo.  So … here we are plodding along at 80km/h when a fella in a land cruiser ute pulls alongside and makes some odd gestures at me.  I figure we’ve left the antenna up or a bed folded out or something stupid … we did get going in a hurry after all.  I pulled over not knowing quite what to expect … as does the cruiser driver …

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