Today Dan and did a local adventure. We took our bikes for a ride and revisited Port Adelaide. This has been the site for a new development - NewPort - which has seen the construction of muti-story accommodation and marinas. It is interesting to compare this trip to our last blogged [url=http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/Port-Adelaide/blog-14594.html]Port Adelaide visit in July 2005. We called this the 3 bridge tour - the Jervois, the Birkenhead and the brand new Tom (Diver) Dereck bridges. There is a 4th - a railway only bridge - the Blessed Mary MacKillop bridge. First we visitied the mangroves at the southern end [View Full Entry]

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We made a 2 3/4 hour walk at Anstey Hill this weekend (see map for detail). It was nice as it was a cool day to walk some of those steep sections. Plenty of birds - particulary rosellas. Some frogs croaking as well. You can see some of our other Anstey walks here . [View Full Entry]

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Today we visited Warren. It was a lovely Autumnal day with clear skies and light winds. I really like this walk as there are no 'too steep' sections, lots of different terrain and it is really well marked. You can find out more about Warren at our earlier blogs , , and . [View Full Entry]

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Introduction We were up early so we committed to a big walk today - Onkaparinga. This is a long and tough walk, and as it turned out it was the toughest and scariest walk we have had for some time. What happened We started off well on the Sundews track, making our way down into the gorge. Instead of turning left, we turned right and rock hopped down the creek for about an hour. We had some seen some interesting sites - herons fishing, a canoe tree and bull rushes. As we rock-hopped, we looked around for the path that would [View Full Entry]

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Introduction Not far from Adelaide, just behind Flinders University, is a very special area - the Sturt river. We went there for our Sunday walk and enjoyed a different experience - taking in sea views, a dam, a creek, gorge and waterfall. Quite magnificient. As there are some steep climbs and creek crossings - we would not recommend if walkers are under 8 or have limited bush experience. How to get there... From the city take South Road to Sturt Road. Drive past Flinders and then take a right hand turn a few km further down Eden Avenue. Work your [View Full Entry]

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Introduction Today we headed to the Barossa for a Heysen trail walk near Tanunda. How to get there ... From Adelaide travel north to Gawler, and once in Gawler turn right up the Barossa way. Follow this road through Sandy Creek, Lyndoch and on to Tanunda. Maggie Beer's farm shop is 4 km North of Tanunda (see Pheasant farm route map). The walk is south of Tanunda on Rifle Range Road (See 'From Maggies to walk start' map). The third map is of the 11 km walk (Our walk) along the Heysen trail entering into Kaiser Stuhl Conservation Park. What happened [View Full Entry]

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Introduction The hikers are normally silent over summer as SA is way too hot to walk - so this year we headed off down South - to Tasmania. Peter decided to drive - which meant we had an opportunity to catch up with Tom and Kate in Mount Gambier and also visited their family at Beachport. If you want to read more about our Tasmania holiday then you should have a look at this web site My Tassie journey. Mt Gambier walk I got up early in the morning and walked from the Presidential Hotel towards Mount Gambier. I went past [View Full Entry]

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Introduction This blog is about our two recent visits to Black Hill. The first walk was a guided tour on the Southern side of the hill. Dan is part of the CSIRO Double Helix science club. This club is very well organised and has a stack of events to choose from and this was one of them. It was a "Herpetology field trip" to check out the Cunningham skinks - a long living lizard (30 years!) that is distributed through the Mt Lofty ranges. The trip was led by Peter Matejcic who showed us the tricks of lizard spotting. For [View Full Entry]

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Introduction This was a shortish walk in the Adelaide Hills called Jupiter Creek. The loop trail takes in a piece of the Heysen trail. The walk is 5 minutes away from Hahndorf - a German 'touristy' town where you can see all manner of quirky germanic things. How to get there From the city, head up Glen Osmond road to the freeway. Continue on the freeway until the exit leading to Hahndorf. From the main street of Harndorf look out for the large brown signs leading to Jupiter Creek Mine. There are several turns and about 5 kms before you arrive [View Full Entry]

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A few pictures from last Sunday's Walk for the cure which was organised by the Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation. A huge thanks to all the blog readers who donated - our team raised over $600 before the walk, which will go towards research into curing Diabetes type 1 (a disease that Dan has had since he was two). It was a lovely day - 22 degrees and bright and sunny. After doing our warm up exercises we set off for the walk - which was so pleasant and colourful along the seaside. The map of the walk is available online. If [View Full Entry]

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