Adelaide

We spent a year in Adelaide in 1988 so we were looking forward to revisiting a few known places. 

We arrived at Brownhill Creek.
It's a beautiful little park in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. How cool that there's a koala in the trees above us!

That afternoon, we went for a walk around the local Mitcham area, a lovely suburb with some beautiful houses and historic buildings. One thing hasn't changed... we reckon you could show anyone a picture of an Adelaide suburban street and the style of many of the houses, as well as the ubiquitous gravel verges (as opposed to grass) are a dead giveaway that you're in Adelaide, or at least South Australia.

We went for a drive and a walk past the schools we worked at that year, in Norwood and Payneham, as well as our old house in Magill.
That night we went for dinner with an ex-colleague of Robyn's. Was a good catch-up.

The car was due for a service, so on the Tuesday we left it with a mechanic for the day, relaxed and read by the van and went to lunch with another former colleague of Robyn's at the school where he's the principal.

That night we caught up with other friends.

Yes, the budget is blowing out this week!

We spent a day wandering the city (enjoying the free city transport as interstate senior tourists - wake up, Sydney) including walking into the Botanical Gardens.

Wednesday we went to the beach and had lunch at Glenelg Surf (!!) Life Saving Club overlooking the beach, where kids were playing school beach volleyball and having surf (again, !!) lessons

We went into the city on Thursday night to catch up with friends and caught a Fringe Festival show.

Friday we drove up into the hills for the day.

Stirling

Coffee and morning tea at Hahndorf.

Have absolutely loved Adelaide.

We left there to travel south towards where the Kangaroo Island ferry travels from at Cape Jervis.

Sellicks Beach, stopped to make a sandwich.

Port Noarlunga, south of Adelaide.
It was a hot day; there were plenty of people swimming and jumping off the jetty.

Camped at Wirrina.
It's been dry, and with the extreme heat today and winds, while tempting to stay right under the trees, we camped a little away.
There's a few good sized branches that have come down recently.

We're on a 9am ferry tomorrow morning, so went south to Wirrina, leaving an easy 30 minute drive first thing tomorrow.