Blogs from South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 224

Lake Eyre Australasia » Australia » South Australia By RosalindCorbyApril 20th 2007.... read more

The road where they run into the distance ...... read more

Adelaide is probably the best example the grid style city. I've noticed it in a few cities before, like Christchurch and Melbourne, but in Adelaide it's even more evident. The perfect rectangular of the central city is criss-crossed with a symmetric grid of streets and carefully placed squares, while all streets start in the central avenue. The center city is completely surrounded by parks that separate it from the suburbs, with roads going out through the parks in the nine symmetric directions. The suburbs themselves are smaller separate grids. The whole city is painfully planned. My immediate thought was that I'm witnessing here very new cities, much newer than those I know in Europe, and that's the reason they are so planned. And then I remembered that my own home city is much newer than those, ... read more

I have seen a variety of wild-life throughout my trip, but nowhere it was as concentrated as on Kangaroo island. Penguins, seals of different kinds, platypus, koalas, wallabies and kangaroos, of course, to name a few of the animals we saw. I believe I've already commented about the way wild animals seems unusual to me, and it was even stronger now. Walking near the farm we were staying at and noticing a big lump on the tree that turned out to be a Koala seemed even more strange and special. But I really understood that when we got to the "pelican circus". In Kingscote, the bigger town on the island, there's a guy who feeds the pelicans there every evening. I don't know how did it start, but clearly it's more for the tourist than ... read more

Had a great day at the beach, despite a few problems getting back into the city...... read more