Fucking seriously. I get that this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but this pretty much means Adelaide will be shitter than ever. The small, cosy venues won’t be able to stay open at all with those fees.
For the love of kittens, if you’re ever down Port Lincoln/Coffin Bay way, drive through Wangary anyday but sundays 10-5 for amazing pancakes. Look for the signs for the antique store - the guy has an amazing record collection and he still has a bunch to be priced. My partner and I went back another day for more, the pancakes were seriously so good. I’m ruined for pancakes now. No regrets.
I will get a better picture later when I charge my camera batteries, but I freaking love this necklace. I was lucky enough to be in Coffin Bay long enough to catch the sunday market which comes every few weeks. I bought a few little pretty buttons and pendants, spices, and two beautiful necklaces from the most enthusiastic old guy ever. It’s a type of stone called “Rainbow Opal Matrix” which is mined in Andamooka, and it’s absolutely beautiful. I was shuffling through the pendants the guy was selling and the shape of this one really stood out to me, I love it. :3 I got to pick a chain for it too - I’m starting to buy more and more gold and brass tone jewelry - I never thought I would!
Getting mobbed by kangaroos. I am relatively scared of kangaroos - at least now just the big ones who will mess you up if you come near their babies, but these kangas were so beautiful! Two had joeys that popped their heads out of their pouches every so often - one had all it’s fur but the other was still a whitish colour, so precious.
If you’re ever near Port Lincoln in South Australia, go to Glen Forest animal park. It’s the best place ever - they have heaps of animals including donkeys, goats, alpacas, peacocks, and even an ostrich that are all friendly (the ostrich has an attitude though - I liked him) and you can feed them for $2 a bag. Plus entry is only $12 per adult, and less for kidlings. Way better than a zoo. It’s someone’s personal property and their farm and you can tell the animals are all well loved and treated well.
Just hanging in my hammock is making me think about my hike a lot. I miss camping. Some of the photos I took, there is more in the link. Or ask me stuff about my hike
I just spent I don’t even know how long trawling just a fraction of these pictures, and they’re all amazing. Ethan walked the Heysen trail, which is ~1200kms long in South Australia, and documented it amazingly.
I may as well put these all together. They’re all beautiful but it’s hard to appreciate someone’s vacation photo spams when you weren’t there :P
All taken from the balcony of the Novotel Barossa Resort.
View of the Barossa Valley from our balcony at the Novotel Barossa Valley Resort.
I’ll probably post a lot of picture spams over the next few days. The view from the balcony and the expensive as fuck restaurant were so amazing! The pictures don’t do it justice though, as usual.
P.S: It was stinking fucking hot and dry the whole time, even at night!
Travel plans
It’s decided that Cameron and I are going to Coffin Bay. It’s on the coast and they have heaps of activities and rentals and whatnot. We want to go kayaking, but the problem is Cameron’s car has roofracks, but isn’t reliable for that distance. We could take my mum’s car with a trailer because it’s 6cyl, I guess. I don’t know how much trailer hire is. We looked into hiring a 4wd with roofracks and it’s $77 or $88 a freaking day. So ~$1100 for the duration of time we need it. No thanks. The cheapest holiday house there isn’t available, the next cheapest would cost us $1500 for 12 nights. I don’t feel it’s worth it. An ensuite cabin at the caravan park I think was also $125 a night which is the freaking same. What even?
But a powered site with communal toilets is only $30, so $360 and I could buy a super badass tent with the money leftover too. I was going to buy online as I found some cheap but the postage time worries me. We plan to go away on the 14th of 15th of Jan but postage times always take longer this time of year.
Everything is butts. Did you know Aldinga which is a shitload closer doesn’t have a caravan park with suitable tent areas? The fuck?
