Blogs from Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Life on the Eagleview Colored Sheep farm was great. It was a very mooooo-ving experience and not baaaaaaaa-d at all. Debbie and Ian Hopton own the 30 acre farm...which mainly runs coloured sheep, Angora goats, and alpacas for fleece. Their other animals included a Shetland ponies, cows, chooks, a pet kangaroo, 2 Fox Terriers and a cockatoo.The property has stellar views, a large garden, fruit trees, various berries, and a vegetable garden. Sarah (another Wwoofer) and I started work at 8 am. We fed the sheep, goats, cows, pet kangaroo, chooks, and cockatoo. It was great fun being in charge. We had to count the sheep, goats and cows...making sure everyone was accounted for. We had to making sure the sheep and goats did not have grass seed stuck in their eyes. One goat did get ... read more

Alice was the wife of the former Postmaster General of South Australia Sir Charles Todd ! We landed in Alice Springs and checked into our digs for the night at the Aurora Alice Springs Resort. Nothing much to do in Alice, so it was an early night as we were picked up at 5.05am for our next adventure, a journey through the Red Centre to Adelaide. Although the Red Centre is more like the Green Centre due to all the recent rain the outback hasn’t been so lush for around 50 years. Wednesday 24th November: Set off on our outback adventure with a bus full of backpackers 20 of us and our Oz driver guide Jason...no worries! We arrived at Camp Yarula 13 hours later having travelled 500 miles (just like The Proclaimers). Along the way ... read more

Early morning outside our room at Mount Lofty House. Complimentary bottle of red was consumed in front of a fireplace, in a room of beautiful furniture including leather chesterfields and armchairs. Dinner in the restaurant was superb. For breakfast we were joined by birds fossiking amongst the bushes outside our window. Great atmosphere in a lovely old building.... read more

It is getting close now. Less than 2 days. We have spent the evening packing bags and sorting clothes and working out what we want to take. Dad has filled out his outgoing passenger card but I haven't got mine yet so I can't fill it out yet. I have recieved an e-mail from Nana. She says that she is in Edinburgh en route Inverness and The Orkneys. She says that it is very warm, but she reckons that it will be cooler int he north. We will hear more of what she has done and her stories later on, and I will publish that as a separate blog entry, but untill we hear more from her when we are in the Netherlands, and when we meet up with her. We are still looking at what ... read more

As we count down the days before we depart, we have to continue our preperations, today most of which involved the internet. Online, we booked our hostels in London, Paris and Amsterdam, and checked out train times and flight times. We checked out where we wanted to go and booked a 'flight' on the London Eye. It is called a flight because it is owned by British Airways and they like labelling stuff like that. We have been contemplating the logistics of our arrival in London, and hoping that it will all go to plan, even if we do arrive at 5.55 in the morning. Dad also booked a night in a hostel in Amsterdam which is a 16 bed boarding house, which I am not particularly looking forward to. It is booked now, so I ... read more