Adelaide - City of Churches

This morning I didn't really check my bag before we left, and once we got to Adelaide I realised I'd left my beautiful hiking boots outside the door at Parachilna. Gutted. The next south-bound bus should be bringing them down for me though, hopefully.

Our first stop in the morning was Yourambulla Caves, a preserved site bearing Aboriginal Cave paintings, which are basically utilised for learning and recording purposes. Before we set off walking towards them from the car park Celia gave us a fairly interesting talk about Aboriginal culture, and somebody farted during it. The cheek! She said the walk wasn't hard so I went in my flip-flops, but it was actually really rocky so it hurt a bit! It only took us about 20 mins to get there and back so it wasn't too bad, but the paintings were drawn with charcoal so they weren't really that impressive.

Next stop was Kanyaka Ruins, the ruins of an old homestead which flooded and were abandoned, and they date back to 1863 (so they're not really all that considering my house is more than 60 years older than that! But it's old for Australia).

After that we stopped for some dinner in the town of Murray, where they had a hot plate for us to do toasties on, and we basically just used up all the food we had left. On the way through the Clare Region we stopped at Knappstein Winery to do some wine tasting, but the lady there was so overwhelmed with a coach-full of 20 that she only let us try two! And she wasn't too friendly either!

Once in Adelaide we settled in at the hostel, showered, and went downstairs for our free meal! Turned out we had a choice between Fish Fingers (fresh from the freezer!), Lasagne or Nachos. I went for lasagne but I think it'd been sat there for a while as it was cold, as was my mash and veg. Oh well! Then we sat in the bar for a while. Jarrod turned up (our driver from Darwin to Alice) and he managed to do his party trick! Then we moved on to a club called Heaven (which took much deliberation to find!) and partied the night away to their 'Timewarp' theme - it was all 70s, 80s and cheesy music so it was all good fun. Claire went home earlier than me by about a half hour, and I stopped at Subway on the way back for a Cheese Steak Sub with the guys who stayed until the end (us hardcore party-goers!). Eventually rolled into bed about 4:30am.

So there's my week! Today we've been to a chocolate factory, but I shall tell you about that in a later post as my eyes are going funny and I'm starving! So I'll post again soon and let you know what I've been up to in Adelaide. Take care all!