{"id":129,"date":"2026-05-07T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/?p=129"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:11:37","slug":"day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Melbourne to Renmark&nbsp; &nbsp;707km&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Early start, 4.30am to get out of the Melbourne metropolis. Met up with our travelling partners for this trip, Tom and Di. We met where a few of our trips had started, Canning , Flinders Ranges, Bendleby to name a few&#8230;we set the cruise controls for Renmark and head due North East along the Calder Highway&#8230;lunch at our usual bakery in Ouyen, a quick vanilla slice and back on the road towards South Australia..Renmark wasn&#8217;t too far away, but first a Quarantine Check at the border, nothing to declare, then rolling again towards our final stop for the day&#8230;checked into the caravan park and relaxed for a short time before walking into Renmark (gotta get those steps up!) and settling for a dinner at the Renmark Club on the banks of the Murray..the river is very wide here and makes for some great photos&#8230;back to our respective residences for a well deserved few more hours of sleep&#8230; tomorrow we drive westward with our stop set at Kimba&#8230;more then&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000-685x513.jpg 685w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG-20260518-WA0000.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-685x514.jpg 685w, https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260518_165223-2000x1500.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne to Renmark&nbsp; &nbsp;707km&nbsp; &nbsp; Early start, 4.30am to get out of the Melbourne metropolis. Met up with our travelling partners for this trip, Tom and Di. We met where a few of our trips had started, Canning , Flinders Ranges, Bendleby to name a few&#8230;we set the cruise controls for Renmark and head due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/?p=129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4wd","category-camping","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}