Trip to Adelaide

Yes, the correct answer to the last post, was Adelaide. We went there for a few days. We toured the city the first day and explored both the botanical gardens and the nearby wine center. The wine center was an informational and educational display of wine growing and was very interesting. One of the displays allowed you to select grapes, and process them into wine and evaluate the results - mine was described as worthy of "floor cleaner!!" David's was something to accompany a truly awful meal. So I guess wine making is not in our future, unless we are much better educated! This was not using real grapes, just a computer program... A wander around the Botanic gardens was relaxing and enjoyable. We then stayed right down town at the Hilton and enjoyed a meal at a small Italian restaurant that night before heading out to the Barossa the next day to go wine tasting.
The first winery was Wolf Blass and they had just released a very innovative new package - a plastic wine bottle and the wine in it was quite good, its light to carry and does not break! It come with both red & white wine. We sampled many more wines and drove around the area and took some pictures of the architecture and other sites - see pictures at the end of the blog.


The next day we planned to fly to Kangaroo island and island just off the south of South Australia. It was just a 20 minute flight (but it saved the ferry crossing which can be very rough and I am not the best sailor in the world!) We arrived at the tiny airport collected our Hertz car (after being told that you only get 100 free KM and after that you pay .27 per km and as the island is about 100 KM long and to see anything you need to drive from one end to the other, they know you will exceed the mileage allowed - great revenue raiser. The airport was also planned with great expansion in mind, as it 14km from the nearest town (and that's also where the nearest petrol and accommodation is) - so going in and out of town uses up 28 of your "free" miles! We stayed in Kingscote for the night and the hotel was under renovation, the restaurant was mediocre. I did play the 1c poker machine and won $19...
The next day we drove around the island, visiting a Eucalyptus Farm, a honey farm and the National Park where we saw magnificent rock formations. After a full day of driving (and 300km later) we returned to the airport and headed back to Adelaide. We went a dog show on Saturday morning and then flew back to Queensland.
Enjoy the photos below