Road Trip!
After a couple more days taking in the Melbourne fumes and experiencing the continuing buzz of commonwealth games fever we hired our car and hit the open road on Monday morning. After about 250kms we arrived at the YHA in Hall's Gap in the recently charred Grampians National Park. The vegetation is recovering well after the huge fires which recently swept through. The village of Hall's Gap survived unscathed and the hostel was nestled beside the road in a quiet little location.
We took advantage of the free shonky bikes on offer and took a nostalgic bike ride around the village as we used to do as school kids on the sunny Barra evenings after school. In Barra however we never came across hundreds of cockatoos, dozens of kangaroos and kookaburras sitting on the car park fence. Well not normally anyway.
We peddled our merry way around the village and surrounding roads until dark then sat with our dinner in the silent bush atmosphere. The evening's silence only briefly broken by a possum munching on the nearby trees.
Today we drove the remaining of the 450km of highway 8 to Adelaide stopping to discuss the continuing problem of speeding drivers with a friendly policeman as we went. I was only doing 113kmph for heaven sake! 'You're so right officer......thank you for pointing that out officer'.
Apart from that it was a straight road with nothing but the trees and grass for company.
Anyway we sunned ourselevs on the beach at Glenelg just outside Adelaide and two minutes walk from our rather ropey looking hostel. We're about to head to the big smoke and sample the Adelaide atmos. It's not got much of a reputation to maintain mind.
No worries mate.
We took advantage of the free shonky bikes on offer and took a nostalgic bike ride around the village as we used to do as school kids on the sunny Barra evenings after school. In Barra however we never came across hundreds of cockatoos, dozens of kangaroos and kookaburras sitting on the car park fence. Well not normally anyway.
We peddled our merry way around the village and surrounding roads until dark then sat with our dinner in the silent bush atmosphere. The evening's silence only briefly broken by a possum munching on the nearby trees.
Today we drove the remaining of the 450km of highway 8 to Adelaide stopping to discuss the continuing problem of speeding drivers with a friendly policeman as we went. I was only doing 113kmph for heaven sake! 'You're so right officer......thank you for pointing that out officer'.
Apart from that it was a straight road with nothing but the trees and grass for company.
Anyway we sunned ourselevs on the beach at Glenelg just outside Adelaide and two minutes walk from our rather ropey looking hostel. We're about to head to the big smoke and sample the Adelaide atmos. It's not got much of a reputation to maintain mind.
No worries mate.
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