SUNDAY 16 MAY     WILPENA

John had said that he wanted to make Cornish pasties this weekend, so we’d bought mince in Port Augusta. He had to make the pastry from scratch, and worked most of the morning, to make six pasties. They were excellent!

We had some pasties for lunch – with a bottle of red wine, for a change. Drinking wine at lunchtime is most unusual for us!

After the large lunch, we needed a walk, so followed the track to St Mary’s Peak that runs along the “front” of the range from the Wilpena camp ground. Walked for 90 minutes along this, almost to Tanderra Saddle, then retraced the same way. It was good exercise.

I started to sneeze on the way back, then had a streaming nose for the rest of the evening. That came on so suddenly. Maybe I picked up a cold germ when we were in “civilization” on Friday?

Tea was pea and potato soup, more pasties, yoghurt and banana.

I went to bed early to try to sleep off the head cold.