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Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide » Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park January 29th 2012

Day 123, 12/01/12 Hired a free bike today and cycled along Adelaide river and then turned around and cycled the other way to the beach and back to the town. Had a walk around The Botanical Gardens. Got on the train in the evening and Stuart treated us both to the upgrade to a cabin with 2 beds in it. Played cards, ate dinner, read my book and chatted before going to sleep on a moving train. The train is due to arrive in Perth on Saturday morning (14th) - so a very long journey. As we left Adelaide we were getting further and further into the outback through all the farms before hitting the true Australian outback. Day 124, 13/01/12 Had a shower on the moving train which was an experience. Saw lots of nothing ... read more

Adelaide Home from Home

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide » Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park November 4th 2010

fernihough

Hey guys n girls ive made it to my new Home from Home. The welcome was amazzing from my family, im glad i had them here to take me in on my first stop of my tour.. Its only been a few hours and im settling in ok. First impressions of Oz.. its clean, New, Friendly and very quiet and layed back compared to the Uk.. ive only travelled from the aiport to ALDINGA though. But im excited to get out n about and see what its got to offer :) Will post new updates over the next few days.. ... read more

Dunc's downunder!

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide » Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park September 15th 2007

The Proud Gavin Family

Jaseandrach

Staying with The Gavin family We caught the train to the airport for our Qantas flight to Adelaide. After a nice, short flight we arrived at the airport to be greeted by Duncan, Joanne, Katie and Amy. It was really nice to actually be met at the airport by a familiar face, and it was great to see them all again, looking very well indeed! Especially Dunc's little Pale Ale belly. We stopped off at a beach for a lunch-time picnic on route to their house in Silver Sands, Aldinga. The house had a lovely balcony with a stunning view of the beach and you could hear the waves crashing on the shore. Jase and Dunc took Lucy the Labrador for a walk along the beach and then we bought pizza for dinner, where Dunc hilariously ... read more

Aldinga scrub

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide » Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park July 9th 2006

Grass trees

SA hiker

Introduction This weekend's walk was a new one for us - a visit to the Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park - and as we were all recovering from colds, it was a somewhat truncated walk. The basis for our walk was George Driscolls's walk number 35 (p76) in his book 50 real bushwalks around Adelaide. This walk is very suitable for children as it is only mildly undulating. The track is mostly sand and I could imagine it getting quite hot during Summer (however the nearby surf might make a nice cool down option). The interesting thing about this park is that the vegetation is similar to what most of what the Adelaide coastline looked like 200 years ago when only the Kaurna people lived there (pronounced 'garna', the Kaurna are the Indigenous inhabitants of the Adelaide ... read more

Brief history of Australia

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name...more history

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