Been really pretty busy since I last wrote, and reckon this will be the last time I get to actually. Have spent the last weeks staying with my cousin which has been really good fun, I cooked them a meal of Moroccan nosh and have been shown around the delights of Adelaide, of which there are many. I've had lunches at beach side cafes, trips to Haighs factory where they produce divine chocolates, I've petted a koala called Teddy and learnt that his 15kg weight is mainly due to his 1 tree a week eating habit, pretty impressive. I've hand fed bandicoots and highlight was actually managing to hand feed a kanagroo mum and its joey at the same time, there i was with my hand full of roo food offering to Mrs roo, then theres a rather disturbing amount of movement and a joeys head pops out of the pouch and says hello, really cute. We got to the wildlife park by actually climb up to the top at waterfall gully which was really beautiful, I've been mostly really lucky with the rain although last night we had a thunderstorm that woke me up, BIG thunder...!
I've visited a church, Adelaide has more churches per sq metre than anywhere else in the world...I think. I've attended a Nepalese restaurant, went to a drinks for a 30th and have got myself into some really good books too whilst I've been away. The coffee here in Adelaide is amazing, there's a big Italian influence in the city apparently. I've got a glimpse of a couple of vineyards whilst I've been here also. Oh and as I walked down the beach at Glenelg I had a dolphin follow us until we sat down for lunch, beautiful.
But now things are starting to get busy busy busy I've now met my fellow roadtrip friends and today after a delicious brunch at a local deli we went shopping for the road trip after a quick scout about the Adelaide oval too. I've picked up some gumboots, baby wipes, socks, and have just grappled with a swag for the last 40 mins lining it with dooners and sleeping bags to make sure I'm warm when the sun sets in the desert (its gets really cold at night apparently.) we leave on Thursday, and apparently have nearly $1000 worth of booze, huge hunks of meat and according to rumour, equipment for a sports day towards to the back end of the trip.
We leave on thursday afternoon and arrive back ten days later, having visited dalhousie springs, the flinders ranges, birdsville, (google) all over red sand dunes-having traversed the Simpson Desert, the driest desert on earth. The weather has been pretty wet for the past few months so apparently the flora and fauna are outstanding so I'm excited to see that and bathe in springs in the middle of nowhere. Most excited about the stars, my swag has a mesh top to it, so I'll be falling asleep with nothing but the milky way like a blanket across the sky and lots of shooting stars apparently. everything is apparently!
Until then I'm heading to Kangaroo Island tomorrow for 3 days with a ferry crossing thrown in too. Exciting stuff. I'll try and update this if I can after K.I but doubt I'll be able too, so instead I'll write up to let mum and dad know I'm back safely as soon as I'm back, as we have absolutely no mobile signal in the desert, only our own radios to talk to each other in the convoy. nervous, but really excited too, can't wait to bore you all silly about this trip when I get back, will take vast amounts of photos....lots of love xxxxxxxxxxx
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