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

Hi All. I know you have all been waiting with baited breath to see what we have been doing. 2nd Jan 2006 Well we left Melbourne to spend or first 2 nights in Yambuck near a wind farm. On the way there we stopped at Gelong Botanical Gardens for lunch. We stopped at Campertown for a snooze as we wwere a bit tired and then once we found the van park we went for a walk along the foreshore and the river with the boys. 3rd Nard's parents met us at Yambuck so we spent the day touring around. We went to the Crags which is a rocky outcrop and the volcanic ation had fosilized the tree roots. We went to Tower hill and walked to the top lok out and then around a boardwalk down ... read more

Today we went to Port Adelaide for our walk. Our route Peter had to go to work so it was just Dan and I heading out from home. As we crossed the Jervois bridge we were able to see the remnants of an old jetty that had been reduced to poles standing in the water. At the end of the Jervois bridge we saw a man in a diving suit preparing to dive near the Port Adelaide docks. This photo shows him with the Jervois bridge in the background, and another shows him entering the water near the old Troubridge loading dock. Port Adelaide is due for major redevelopment soon and a new Information Centre was built over the water near the old flour mill. Its mostly steel and glass. We went down one of the ... read more