Blogs from South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 223

Kangaroo Island From Adelaide we did a one day trip to Kangaroo island, used to be inhabited by many kangaroos. Now there are more koalas. So many that the government started birth control and sterilisation programmes to reduce the number of koalas. So we saw koalas, kangaroos, walaby's and seals. The coastline was also nice and the remarkable rocks, so called for their funny shapes. Vanuit Adelaide hebben we een dagje Kangaroo Island bezocht. We wilden weer met een huurauto maar dat is erg moeilijk en duur vanwege de monopoly van Sealink op zowel de tours als alle andere vervoer. We hebben besloten om onze trip naar de Red Centre, Alice Springs, naar voren te halen zodat we meer tijd aan de oostkust hebben, dus we hebben maar 1 dag op het eiland. We vertrekken ... read more

Well, the clock's-a-ticking and there is heaps left to do. I guess going fishing last Sunday when Amanda had lined up a whole heap of work on the Kamper and Prado, wasn't such a good idea. Not to worry, while the water was a bit rough, any day fishing is better than any day helping the wife organise the Kamper. Opened up the Kimberley Kamper for the first time last weekend, since before Easter and everything was mouldy from moisture. I wonder if having the beast on the back lawn next to the sprinklers was such a good idea, but too late now. At least we are getting some of the wet stuff from the heavens and the Kamper is getting cleaned every so often, daily at the moment. Damn near forgotten what that wet stuff ... read more

I have to apologise for my lack of blog writing but we are in the process of just settling down now after all of our exploration in Asia. So, with family life as the norm now, we have a little time to ourselves to blog what we missed out. This is our mission for the next couple of weeks. I will be reminiscing about the latter part of our Asia trip and hopefully fill everyone in on what we have done with our first week in Adelaide. Sorry for the wait, i promise we'll be up to date ASAP! x... read more

Well, the first week of Australia was a pleasant one and one that went far too quickly for my liking too. It appears that once back in semi- normality, the concept of time slows down momentarily and then quickly speeds up, so by the time we fully realised our position in the world, one week had already passed. The reason for this was primarily due to being quite busy in the first couple of days, which i suppose sets the wheels in motion and sets a precident for the following weeks. We arrived bleary-eyed after catching our transfer flight from Singapore with our lovely Singapore Airline carrier and hostesses. The flights were average, nothing special to report, except that we were probably the most uncomfortable we had ever been during our travels. Comfort just wasn't on ... read more

So have been in Adelaide for the past 5 days, I think after leaving cairns. Pretty uneventful flights, 1 was a bit bouncy particularly when taking off and landing, but we all got off alive. Have been staying in a half decent hostel, well the people there are cool and have been having a laugh with em, but the area is somewhat a bit suspect. Have been told that adelaide is the worst city for crime in australia, and the street i'm staying on has the highest number of murders, so have been a bit cautious when i've been out, have to say that I still haven't come across any adelaide rap or the rappers. But really haven't been out too much, have been staying in and reading alot during the day, then getting some ... read more