Our last 2 days in Adelaide included a visit to Jack’s cousin George and 2 nights sampling some of the Adelaide Cabaret Fesitival events. We saw Eden Espinosa, based in New York and known for her performances in many Broadway muscials.  Also The Suitcase Royale in a performance “The Ballad of Backbone Joe”.  They were a […]

We headed back to Adelaide via the Barossa Valley, where we were surprised by the traffic jams in Tanunda. We made a detour to an “historic site” of the Robbie Burns Inn …. in the middle of nowhere

The scenery was pretty, but wintery in the Clare Valley where we stayed at Patly Hill Farm on the Blyth Road out of Clare.  Great B&B self contained accommodation on a working farm with vines, olives, fruit and vegies, sheep, dogs and  birds.  From this base we visited a few vineyards, galleries, historic homes (including […]

We headed inland from the Spencer Gulf in search of rolling hills and good food. Jamestown was a pretty little village with the best food we had come across all trip, at a little cafe.  The town is so little, we forgot we had already been there on our way north, but happy to visit […]

South of Port Augusta we stopped in at Port Germein to view the historic mile long jetty, once the longest in the southern hemisphere.  Still too long for us to walk to the end of …

With not too much to do in Port Augusta, we took a day trip to Whyalla, a more appealing town with major steelworks and a relaxed seaside atmosphere for a picnic and coffee.

Port Augusta is known as the crossroads to Australia’s outback north, east and west.  We didn’t find it to be a bustling or scenic spot, although our hotel on the golf course had a good view and noisy cockatoos partying in a nearby tree. We did find out the name and nature of the everpresent saltbush, […]

We left Wilpina and headed north to a small, pretty and friendly (both the cafe and general store owners) town of Blinman.  Then on the gravel road and water crossings through to Parachilna with a population of 7 and a good hotel we were going to stay at, but instead tore down the highway to […]

Jack wants my boring blog to be funny and so he will edit it and insert words like  bum and fart and fuck … such Glasgow humour as Billy Connolly … so will leave that for him…. We had fantastic cold clear weather to walk in during the day and see the fantastic milky way at […]

After checking in to our cabin accommodation within Wilpena Pound Resort we headed off to view the sunset from Stokes Hill.  This is also the time when thousands of kangaroos are out grazing close to the road, so we returned to the resort at 35 kph on a 110 kph road to avoid any messy […]