Picked up at 8.45am (finally a tour with a lie-in). We headed out to the Barossa Valley. Our first stop for morning tea was at a place called Gumeracha. This is where the Giant Rocking Horse lives... The second stop was the Herbig Family Tree. This tree was actually lived in by Herbig, a German settler that came over in the 1800s, and also his wife and the first 2 of his 16 children lived there!!!! Then it was off to hit the Wineries. First on the agenda was Wo...

Day Two Picked up and our first stop of the day was to Clifford's Honey Farm. Kangaroo Island is the only place in the world where a pure strain of Ligurian bee exists. These bees originated from Italy, they are very quiet and docile bees so easy to work with. we sampled some Honey fizzy drink, which was very nice then the owner explained to us the process he does for the keeping of his bees and the extracting of the honey. Over 10,000 kilograms of honey is prod...

Day One The bus picked me up at 6.20am then it was a 2 hour drive to Cape Jervis to catch the Ferry across to Kangaroo Island. Arrived at about 10am found my bus and guide, Jeff, and met the 3 other people on my tour for the next 2 days. Our first stop was to the Emu Ridge Eucalyptus Oil Distillery. The oil is produced from the islands Narrow-leaf Mallee trees. The make it by putting the leaves into like a huge steamer that extracted the oil from the leaves. It...

Today I took a drive out with Sean along the coastline of Adelaide, through the McClaren Vale to Victor Harbour where we had fish and chips. We then went to Glenelg and had a quick walk around then I got the tram back to the city to my hotel to pack my bag ready for Kangaroo Island.

After a good nights sleep and a nice lie in I head out into Adelaide city. I walked along North Terrace past the University, the old buildings were magnificent, then into the Botanical Gardens which were stunning. I then walked to the South Australia Museum and then it was time for lunch so I walked to Rundle Mall, were I came upon the Haigh's Chocolate shop. I have to say even better than Thorntons!!!! After lunch I walked over to the Torrens River and watched ...