Day 11 - The Feral Mixed Grill 28/09/15

Today we got to have a leisurely start to be ready to leave camp around 10.15am this is a late start for us. We packed everyone into the cars to head into the great outback to the Prairie Hotel to try their world famous Feral Mixed Grill, this experience is listed as one of the top 20 things you must do in the Australian Outback.

We arrived at a quaint but extremely busy little pub in the middle of nowhere in a town called Parachilna. This pub is covered in beautiful and extremely expensive Aboriginal art and is quite classy on the inside. Parents were seated at a table in the main restaurant while the kids got their own private dining room, they thought it was great. Now onto the meals.........the Prairie Hotels main attraction is a dish called the Feral Mixed Grill and what this entails is a kangaroo fillet, emu fillet mignon & a camel sausage! Matt could not wait to taste this and he was not disappointed, loved every mouthful. I couldn't bring myself to eat our native animals and trusty camel so opted for a steak sandwich, this was the biggest sandwhich I had ever seen, it was a full porterhouse with a variety of other stuff in the biggest sandwhich ever! Extremely delicious but could not be finished. Chloe had the old faithful chicken & chips. Matt washed his lunch down with Farger Larger which is the pubs own brew, he tells me it was a great drink, evident with the few bottles he taste tested.......

The toilets were outside the main hotel & Caitie came back in to tell us a bearded dragon was in the ladies which made us cross our legs until a nice man moved it on for us....phew it's a long time between stops.

After rolling out the door of the hotel we loaded back into our cars and headed off to the the Nuccaleena Mine. These old ruins are reported as the best mine ruins site in the Flinders Ranges with most of the stone structures still in tact.

It was a rough & rocky track into the mine site following along a red gum lined creek bed which gave us lots to look at. The mine site did not disappoint with some buildings including the chimney still in tact. It fascinates me how someone back in the mid 1800's stumbled across copper out in the middle of nowhere and built these mines up from nothing.

This mine site is also where Matt found his new mascot Barry, a skull from a kangaroo which apparently just had to come back to camp with us, I drew the line with allowing Barry to be strapped onto our bull bar. Barry or should I say Matt spent the coming evening tormenting Chloe & the Jacko girls Indi & Ra with Barry appaearing in their tent or shoes or just casually watching them from the camper....it gave many laughs.

Today's post is written by Di