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 you would like to donate and you missed out earlier, the web sites stay open during October: Dan's donation web site Diana's donation web site... read more

Introduction Today's walk was a new take on the Peters Hill walk described in George Driscoll's "50 real bush walks around Adelaide". The one that George describes as Walk number 1 in his book took ages when we last went in 2005- this is a modification that takes in a little bit more of the Heysen Trail, and we were able to complete in 3.5 hours. we also visited the town of Kapunda in particular map the minor giant sculpture of a Cornish miner, and the Kapunda mines, where we did a 1.5 km walk. How to get there... See the route map - from the GPO head to Gawler and then on to Kapunda. Travel 13 km beyond Kapunda through to Hamilton. After Hamilton we travelled a few more kilometres before turning left on Murray's ... read more

Introduction The hikers went to visit Scott Conservation Park this Sunday and had a very pleasant (albeit slightly muddy) 3 hour walk. We did a section of a large walk published in the walking guide 'Push the Bush' rather than some of our earlier visits to Scott. While our earlier blogs about Scott were in full-blown spring - see url=http://www.travelblog.org/Australasia/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/Scott-Creek-Conservation-Park/blog-19301.htmlScott walk and url=http://www.travelblog.org/Australasia/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/Scott-Creek-Conservation-Park/blog-23457.htmlSilver mine - this walk was a winter one - although you couldn't but help notice the first lot of flowers peeking through. It was an interesting trail that took in a few new areas for us - a creek walk, and making our way down a hand made road - as well as some familiar areas.... read more

Introduction One of the key missions of our Quorn adventure was to get some tadpoles (well at least that was Cian and Natalie had in mind). This took us to the very beautiful Warren Gorge, about 20 minutes north of Quorn on the Arden Vale road. This is a camping area with scattered long-drop toilets and little else other than serenity, a flowing creek with tadpoles and a rocks in which to hide yellow-footed rock wallabies (Mum and Dad - you must put this on your to-do list). We didn't do much of a walk, just climbed up one of the rises to get some exercise, mostly choosing to focus on getting the taddies. Dan says... Hello readers, Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. The first thing we did was tadpoling. Some thought that there were no tadpoles, Dad ... read more

Not a walk, but a few pictures to share. Dan turned 10 on the 22nd and we had a Laser skirmish party to celebrate. ... read more