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Australia 26. january - 2. march 1998

Australia (week 3)

Henning Nielsen
2005-11-10 16:03:11

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Monday 9'th

Last day on Wayward. Departure Beachport - and for a local farm for some breakfast and sheep cutting. Then north to Kingston and "The Big Lobster". The aussie's does have some strange monuments here and there, and "The Big Lobster" is such a thing - a huge lobster made out of plastic located just outside a restaurant.

On to "The Coorong" - some kind of desert-like nationalpark. A stop at "The Granites" - some graniteblocks on the beach - just about 500 mio. years old. Next stop is some huge sand-cliffs, where we all take our shoes off and walks to the top.

From there to a saltlake - about 2 inches of hardpressed salt on top of a lot of inches of very disgusting black mud. The risk of "going through" is there. 2 from the group does, and get very nasty feet. Then we cross the Murray-river at Wellington and its down through Adelaide Hills until we reach Adelaide.

Arriving in Adelaide at about 7 pm. Checking in on Clarice Motel - get some food - back to bed early - again.

Tuesday 10'th

Adelaide - takes a look around town. Up and down the streets - very neat. In the afternoon I take a very old tram to Glenelg right at the beach. Thats a touristtrap. Plenty of colourfull shops, the beach, and some extremely ugly hotels along the beach. Thank god I didn't choosed to stay here - that was under consideration.

Back again - to the motel.

Wednesday 11'th

Bustrip to Borossa Valley - a huge winegrowing area north of Adelaide. Just 8 people on the bus and the funny driver. A "nicer" crowd then on Wayward.

Visiting a toy-factory and 4 wineyards with free tasting - and the chance to buy of course. At one of them theres a tour. Pretty exiting in fact.

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