Sunday, 4th February 2018
I guess we are used to getting up early – only this time it was 6 am and we had a good night’s sleep in a proper bed and used proper bathrooms…….. going basic is good fun but I still like my luxuries ………
Anyway, it was good getting up early as I could continue writing in my blog – and there was so much to write and my mental notes had to be put down on paper ( or actually in the blog ) with the help of the many photos we had taken. So worked till about 9 am and then we got ready and had breakfast and checked out at 10. Our taxi pick up to the airport was at 11 am so we relaxed in the lobby as it was already too hot to go outdoors – this was a day where we would be spending in airco-ed surroundings – ac in bedroom, ac in lobby, ac in tact, ac at the airport and then on the plane.
Our flight to Adelaide was at 12.35 and it went on time – we were lucky to be sitting together in one row so we had the seat between us empty. This time I was able to take some pictures once we were crossing the Red Centre and also the many salt lakes in the middle of Australia. The bigger one is called Torrens Salt Lake.
This salt lake is more than 250km long and we could easily spot out of the plane -completely different as to what we had seen when we stopped at the Red sand dune to view both Mount Connor and Torrens Salt Lake. Besides this huge lake, we could see many other salt lakes of different sizes – this is the leftovers of the sea that once split Australia into two parts some 350 million years ago!
We filled up the car in Adelaide and keyed in our destination onto our GPS and started our 445 km drive at 16.45.
Driving down, we crossed the Murray River, Australia’s longest river and we saw many wineries on the way. When it was my turn to drive the road narrowed down to just two lanes and know take over stretches. However speed limit was 110 and that kept us going at a good average – luckily it was Sunday evening and though there were some heavy lorries on the road, traffic was good. We even had a pick up truck in front of us transporting two bulls. I quickly overtook this pickup truck!!
By the time we reached our hotel – The Barn – it was already 21.30 and it was dark and we just had an encounter with a kangaroo before entering town! I just called out “Kangaroo” and Gerry stopped the car on time. Kangaroo just looked at us and then hopped across the road and continued looking at us. By the time I had my camera out to take a picture kangaroo decided to hop back into the fields….. At the hotel we were told that kangaroos come out at night to look for water as it’s quite dry and yes they do make it into town as well.
Well we were glad to settle in and sort out our stuff – we had loads of washing to be done – and tomorrow is Monday – a perfect laundry day!
