In the morning at Port Hughes it is raining yet again. Today we are heading off the Yorke Peninsula to Mt Remarkable where it hopefully is not raining all the bloody time. (Spoiler alert - it is not!) On the way, we call in at Port Pirie for fuel. We're not sure what to do there but somehow Toby ends up hooked up to a virtual reality set involving a shark cage experience. He volunteered as tribute because Augie wanted to do it but was too young. We watch Toby freak out as a shark tries to eat him in a cage. It’s pretty cool.

Doing the VR experience means we gain access to see Shakka, the giant Great White Shark caught off Port Pirie in 1998. It’s not the real one of course because sharks don’t have skeletons. However, they’ve built a full scale model of her and she was absolutely enormous.

We drive on to Baroota where we finally encounter SA's famous clear blue skies. Our campsite is at an old township built for the men working on the water pipeline and agricultural projects in the area. We drag the kids off on a bushwalk with lots of "it's too hot!" (it's maybe 25 degrees) and "there's too many flies" (this is not wrong) but eventually we see lots of emus and kangaroos and they come around. We visit the Baroota Cemetery - weirdly, this is the second cemetery we've been to in a week. Augie asks if any of our relatives are buried there but thankfully not, because it's mostly really young children.

When we wake up in the morning, IT IS NOT RAINING. We have survived our first week!