Blogs from South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 236

Speeding up or slowing down? Especially the latter half of this year... Self Expression & Leadership From Adelaide to Melbourne every other weekend for Landmark Education's Self Expression & Leadership Program, which brought an abundance of new possibilities, love, discoveries and self-acceptance. Resonance: October 18 - November 20, 2006 My first official, solo art exhibition... with thanks to my hosts at Coriole Winery, McLaren Vale. Stained glass mandalas of a spiritual nature... Suffice to say this was an immense learning curve and my deepest gratitude goes to the amazing woman who opened her studio and heart to me during the creation process. Check out the details and images here: www.sufiyo.net Then, SunLight Day! On Sunday December 26th, with the wonderful help and contributions of many friends (you know who you are - thank you!), we brou ... read more

OMG we have finally arrived in Adelaide, Australia!! Had a totally busy week, so busy we didn’t even take any pictures! Gill and Neil have really looked after us so a big thank you to them x Adelaide is great, there is a fantastic market where Neil took us shopping for lunch on Friday and then out for a picnic by the river. The food is so fresh and they have a mega selection of just about everything! In fact it is the best food market we have been to. The city is quite small and really well organised, all the streets are in a grid system which makes it easy to get around. The beach is fantastic, we went for a drive all along the coast on Sunday. The beach is a pale golden sand ... read more

I spent Christmas day with the Reachills- Paul, Liz, Anna, Zoe and Jon. They invited me over for Christmas dinner which was amazing- traditional turkey with all the trimmings. We had Christmas crackers too as you can see from the pics of us with our hats on! After dinner we all sat around the Christmas tree and everyone exchanged pressies (even little Monty got some!). It was such a lovely day and I was really glad to be part of their family for the day! I spoke to mum and Laura on Skype in the early evening and watched them open their presents on the web cam- it was the first time I had seen them in two months and it was very special- even if I did feel a bit homesick afterwards. That evening I ... read more

Introduction Desperate to do some walking but taunted by fire, snakes and hot weather, the Hikers did a short walk on Sunday on fire tracks adjacent to Cromer Conservation Park. Cromer is an overgrown park. There are hardly any recognisable trails - so it can feel scary walking here. The Park is square-shaped and is small enough that you can't get lost without popping out on to a road. There is a water course through it, however, like most of the State of SA, this is currently dry. We have done the walk recommended in 20 Nature walks through this park (not blogged) and came out scratched, but enchanted by the bird life, as have others. However, reading through the url=http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parks.sa.gov.au%2Fyurrebilla%2Fnatural%2FYURRE_PDFS_CROMER_CP&ei=u9q... read more

There wasn't a great deal to see or do between Margaret River and Adelaide except drive!! It all got quite boring so we stopped off at a couple of places for something to do. The first stop after leaving Margaret River was the Valley of the Giants. This is the home to the great Karri trees which are enormous, and the clever people of Oz have built a walkway high up in the trees for everyone's enjoyment - although maybe not those who don't like heights, especially if the platforms wobble in the wind!!! The next cause of excitement was when we were camped in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden a plane lands just behind where we are camped in the middle of the night! Sweet, wonder if I can do a ... read more