Adelaide Hills, Adelaide City and Deep Creek park, south australia

Hello chums

Louise here - sorry we have been a bit slack and not got a blog out - the usual reason; no bloody signal yet again;  but we have been camped out in the back boondocks of Deep Creek Conservation park for the past 5 days or so and getting a signal there would be a miracle...

So... we are in a place called Victor Harbour, South Australia state, we are planning to be in this state a bit longer, then we plan to go west into Victoria state,  spend a bit of time there, then catch the ferry to Tasmania to see my pals Sarah and Dom, and spend Christmas with them, and take 4 weeks or so seeing the delights of Tasmania... Phew;  that is the plan anyway.  Fingers crossed;  We had 2 new back tyres put on the van in Tanunda, Barossa Valley, so the van is running very well,  Matt did some work on the engine and so far our  camper van is a star.

 I wish I could say the same about the weather, it was stinking hot (33C) two days ago, (and of course we went bush walking and yes (yawn...) once again I got  touch of heat stroke, but the last 2 days its been 18C and raining;  We even had to put a blanket on the bed last night, as we had packed away the feather and down quilt!   Sorry to bore you all with our sleeping  habits, but after all this time on the road, these things take on mammoth proportions...  We get excited these days to find 20c off a box of teabags at Coles Supermarkets...  Yes, we do drink a LOT of tea;  we are limiting ourselves to a glass of vino only at the weekends...

anyways here are the photos below of our travels...

Here is louise looking out over Adelaide city from the Adelaide Hills; 17.11.10

They even named a street in the palindromic Glenelg after us!   this is a 

very trendy suburb of Adelaide- we loved it...   17.11.10

Here we are 19.11.10 just about to explore the delights of North Adelaide, the

older part of the town, which reminded us of Paddington, Sydney, with a bit

of Subiaco, Perth mixed in;  lots of lovely old houses - which spelt out

one word to us - money!

Here is Matt in the Rundle Mall, Adelaide City with a friend....19.11.10 - there were 2 more of 

these sculptures, one behind was trying to get into a rubbish bin!

Here is matt outside the S.A Art Gallery in Adelaide;  19.11.10;  some great old buildings here.

Aldinga Beach SA- we are on our way to Deep Creek here.20.11.10

Here I am at the beach at Second Valley 20.11.10; the water was so clear!

here is matt walking at Deep Creek Park;  20.11.10

Here we are at the end of the first leg of our walk at Trig Campground, Deep Creek park

we did a 6.4km hike and it was 30C ; going down was no bother to the beach here, But - the going

back up the steep steps was!  Again  I had a touch of heatstroke when we got back; it took us

2 1/2 -3 hrs to complete and we were shattered big time when we made it back to the van; 23.11.10