G'Day Today has been a lazy day. We walked up King William Street to Singapore Airlines and finalised our flight out of Oz for Friday 19th October. From here we had a 3 hour walk around the city. We stopped for a picnic lunch on the River Torrens and shared a little bit with the seagulls and black swans!!! We walked along the riverbank for a while and saw lots of ducks and ducklings and even a turtle which was quite big, before crossing the river and walking pa...

G'Day Folks We left Adelaide this moring and headed out of town towards the Barossa Valley for our day of wine tasting. On the way there we had one very important stop at the Giant Rocking Horse which is 60 feet high but does not rock!!! Then it was straight down to business and our first winery of the day, Wolf Blass. Here we tasted 6 wines and 1 port which was a good start to the day and it still wasn't midday!!! From here we had to eat a lovely 3 course lun...

G'Day Today Adelaide presented us with a lovely sunny day and we capitalised on it by taking the tram out to the beach suburb of Glenelg for the morning/afternoon. Its just a short 20 minute ride from Victoria Square and the tram just about drops you on the beach. We had a walk down the pier and also had a look in the Rodney Fox Shark Experience. He was attacked in 1963 by a great white and decided that he would promote conservation of the sharks it was a cool...

G'Day Guys We had an interesting afternoon yesterday in Coober Pedy we had a tour of the town and visited a working Opal mine and an actual underground house cut out of the old mine!!!! We also visited an underground Serbian church, a lot of people here live underground because the temperature in the Summer can reach 55 degrees!!!!! The church was really nice and so decorative, yesterday was not so hot and a little windy but we went out of town to see part of ...

G'Day We are now in Coober Pedy in South Australia. This is our 5th State. It was a long boring run on the Greyhound that took 9 hours but the landscape is so barren and not much to see. Did not arrive till late last night and just ate and slept!!! Today we are on a tour to visit an Opal Mine an underground house and church plus other things including the dingo fence that runs 5300km through Australia. Coober Pedy roughly translates to 'White mans hole in the...