Adelaide

We got up early this morning and drove towards Adelaide. Adelaide has a really nice esplanade where you can drive along the coast, so that’s what we did. We decided to drive all the way to the northern most part towards the ‘Outer Harbour’. From there we drove to Port Adelaide.

They have been trying for a long time to ‘revive’ this old part of Adelaide. A lot of money is spent, but probably a lot more is needed to achieve their goal. We checked out the wharf and finally made our way to the CBD. This is the moment you are reminded that a car over 2m in height is not going to fit in many of the parking garages. We literally drove around for 40 min before we finally found a parking spot that was a. within walking distance of the CBD and b. allowed us to park longer than 30 minutes.

We walked to Rundle Street, the main shopping precinct, for some window shopping. Around dinner time we made our way to a friend of Monique’s home. She and her husband had invited us to stay at their place for a few nights. Monique and Daniela know each other from their time as backpackers and hadn’t seen each other for more than 11 years. So there was heaps to catch up on.

We had a great two days in Adelaide. What a proper bed and a good shower can do. Thanks again for the hospitality Dani, Damian and Tilly!

This morning we were planning to leave Adelaide and head north, but first we wanted to pick up the metal detector… Sadly this didn’t work out as planned as the shop still hadn’t received stock. After some frantic phone calls, they guaranteed us that there would be one couriered over tomorrow morning. So that meant another day in and around Adelaide. Since we had already paid up for the Chookarloo campsite we stayed on earlier this week, we decided to spend another night here. This time it wasn’t snoring koalas or nosy magpie’s welcoming us but ringtail possums dropping number ones and number two’s on our head. Thanks guys!