Adelaide and Mildura

We left Port Fairy after an evening spent watching the local New Years Eve parade, which included camels, a stagecoach, the inevitable pipe band and even a sheep being sheared on the back of a truck. It was certainly different and memorable.

When we crossed the state border into South Australia the clocks go back one half hour and we didn’t realise, I commented that the clock in the supermarket was half an hour out and we checked into the hotel early thinking it was the correct check-in time.

Adelaide is a beautiful city, wide boulevards, lots of Victorian style buildings and open parkland.
There is everything here, the McLaren wine region to the south and the Borossa valley to the north. Just outside the city is the Adelaide Hills area with lots of small villages and country markets. A twenty minute drive takes you to the Glenelg beach area, lovely white sand and crystal clear water, everything very clean.

One night we had dinner in a local restaurant, the waitress was Chinese so when I ordered lamb rump and she read the order back it came out as ram lump, as Peter Kay says you couldn’t make it up. We are travelling fairly long distances at the moment and it was 400 Km to Mildura where we would be spending a night before travelling a further 400 Km to Bendigo, the scenery is not great with long stretches of desert like country which is not surprising as the temperature today is 34 degrees.

The Murray River runs through Mildura and we took a trip on a paddle steamer down river and back again it was quite interesting really. The river provides irrigation to the vineyards including Ban rock Station, Wolf Blass, Lindemans and Mcguigans which are all in the area around Mildura.