6th of February = Today we decided to do a drive around the Adelaide Hills. First Stop Hahndorf which is an old town settled by Germans and a very nice town with some very nice buildings and shops. We headed just north out of town as Jessica wanted to go to a strawberry farm since Melbourne (I don’t even know how she got the idea). At the Beerenberg Strawberry farm you are allowed to go in to the paddock and pick your own strawberries and the girls loved it. From the strawberry farm we headed to mum and Megan’s favourite the Melba’s chocolate Factory where the girls got to see people making, processing and wrapping chocolate and sweets. While at the chocolate factory we popped into the cheese factory but wasn’t the same so back into the truck to go to the big rocking horse and have a look at a wood making toy factory. Then it was my turn so up to Birdwood to the national car museum while mum and girls played in the park. Well at this stage we were all getting a bit tired but I had been told by a mate about the whispering wall, what an awesome thing for kids and adults it is 180m wide dam wall and a person on one side can whisper near the wall and for some reason the sound travels perfect to the other side where you can hear as if they were half a metre away the kids loved it. Well back to the caravan Kids have fallen a sleep in the truck and I called into Mount lofty as I was told it was the best spot to view Adelaide. Kate sat in the car while I had a look and vis-versa. That was it for a very long day did nearly 300km and saw a lot of stuff.
7th of February = After the big day yesterday we let the kids have a rest playing with the toys in the annexe in the morning followed by a check-up for Kate at the doctors. I had to pop over to a gps shop as organised early in the day after some heated emails with the manufacturer of my gps as it had no maps of South Australia on it. They wanted me to fill out a warranty claim form wait a few days until they replied then me send the gps back at my expense to them wait 7 days for them to send back. I told them how about I walk into a dealer for their gps show them the problem is real and then just swap the little sd card and it will all be fixed. Well after a week of waiting for them to finally agree it took 2mins and now it works (vms you idiots don’t buy their product until they fix their policies). The afternoon was finished off with the kids riding their bikes down the road to the local park and some laundry washing.
8th of February = We decided to get in the truck and drive into town to have a look around well after 20mins driving around and not being able to find a parking spot with more than 15mins time limit, we were heading out the other side where we drove past the zoo so at the last minute decided the zoo it is. Adelaide zoo is not the biggest but has been finished to a high standard. My favourite was the monkeys as it was feeding time on one side of the natural looking monkey cage but a fake river prevents the monkeys on the other side coming over and they went ape even the one that was carrying a baby, they move up and down swinging like maniacs. We all loved the panda’s and are a very cute animal.
9th and 10th of February = Walking around the beach side towns, shops and general relaxing. Kids did get to see some very skilful squid catching which amused them for a while.
11th 0f February = Leaving Adelaide today decided since the weather was still on the cooler side of what it would normally be so we decided to head up to the Flinders ranges we drove though some nice country side and spent the night a hawker caravan park big 4 with the other one traveller it is very quiet out here this time of year. We spent the afternoon in the pool relaxing and letting the girls have some fun after the 400km travelled today.
12th of February = Headed out the flinders today we drove into Wilpena pound had a look at the info centre got some maps of the area and decided to head up to Aroona camp ground via a very scenic dirt road which went up over hills with nice vistas and down through dry creek beds getting to our nice national park camp spot for the nite, with once again a place with 40 plus sites and only one other couple at the other end. This couple had an old moto guzzi motor bike with a full rollbar with a canvas roof and panniers everywhere I can’t even see how you could drive it. The girls and I walked up to look at old ruins of the former homestead while mum rested.
Cost for 7th week
Fuel = $234.38
Food = $223.07
Camping= $21.40
Tourist stuff and others = $445.45
No comments:
Post a Comment