Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Road Trip: Mannum to Snowtown via Adelaide

Today we decided to actually get to Adelaide, trouble is the map im using doesnt quite into the detail we need to drive round the small country roads we were drivin, but by accident we came across the Giant Rockinghorse (near Gumeracha) was by far the biggest giant thing ive seen in oz, so big infact you could climb the legs, body and neck of the horse to different viewing platforms, not that there was alot to see as it didnt breech the height of the tree's in the surrounding area. They also had 1 of the sign posts with all the distances labelled on it from around the world (London was 16687km away). Backon the road for Adelaide, finally got somewhere close and decided to ask some1 if we goin in the rite direction, i happen to pick the only Jordi in oz i reckon to ask, although he didnt seem happy wen i asked if he was from Sunderland hahaha he laughed about it. Finally got into the city center after some more driving about in different direction, parked up and went for a look and the shops, tried a city pie, best one soo ffar i mite add, got bord of lookin round the shops as non of us had any money, so we hit the Museum, free to get in, couldnt go wrong, was pretty good, loads of interestin stuff about australia and wildlife etc. Next stop Glenelg, this is Adelaides answer to St.Kilda in Melbourne although its alot more refined, really nice smart modern looking place, guess what we cudnt find the touist office, so i asked in the police station and they kindly gave me direction on how to get there, the lady wasnt overly helpful, but gave us some number of nearby caravan parks we could try, as they were all 40 bucks a head per nite we decided to skiddadle out of Adelaide, we did catch a glimpse of the sun setting over the Gulf of St.Vincent, shame we couldnt stay to watch it dissapear, i dont think ive ever seen the sunset over the ocean???

Left Adelaide on the wrong road, was heading for Port Wakefield but instead was heading bk to Mannum, quich stop at a petrol station and luckily there was a guy there who was going that way so he said we cud follow him, bk on the rite track, started to feel abit tiered of driving so I pulled in at a little place called snowtown and we camped there for the night (Ive only just found out that this quiet little country place is were 2 of Australias worst serial killers lived until around 6 years ago, they were locked up after confessing to the murders of 18 people and hiding them in barrels).

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