Took a back road, or tourist route heading for Victor Harbor from Adelaide, poor hire car, basically a bubble with 4 wheels, got shook about a bit.
Only few mile out of the city. Adelaide hills, a parkland. Weather wasn't great but you get a good appreciation for the different plants and birds.
Nice. Thanks for sharing those Evo. Brings back happy memories. Spent a couple of weeks on a sort of hippy farm in the Adelaide hills where you got free board and lodgings in return for about 6 hours work a day. We had a great laugh.
I was traveling with a friend years ago who managed to get himself detained in a secure wing of the mental hospital in Adelaide. I managed to get him into a taxi in front of some very confused bystanders in Gleneg. He was sectioned under the mental health act and detained for a week. The rest of our tour took us to New Zealand where we camped out each night as we travelled the north and south islands, needless to say I hid all the sharps and slept with one eye open!
Camped at a van park at Glenelg for about a week, right behind the beach. Had my 34th birthday there.. (Mrs Gimlet bought me a sirloin steak and a whole slab of Carlton Cold and I think I got a shag. Best birthday ever). Nice place but spoilt slightly but a group of Dutch lads who would roll in pissed, whooping and yelling at 1:00 every morning and proceed to play football through the small hours. One night there was a horrendous storm. Never seen wind like it. There were trailer tents flipped over and dozens of people huddled in the camp kitchen with their tents destroyed and nowhere to sleep. We were lucky. We'd pitched tight up in some bushes behind the sand dunes. I backed the car round to the windward side of the tent and tied the guy ropes to it. The wind pushed the tent flat so the roof was on our faces and we spent the night waiting for it to be torn apart. We got no sleep but it stayed in one piece. The Dutch lads came back as usual pissed up and shouty but the football was in the sea, all their gear was scattered across four acres and their tent was shredded bunting. And they didn't have a car. They were going Greyhound. How we chortled.
Does look a bit a deserted. The weather had been fairly crap. Yesterday was very busy, sun was shinning for a change. Maybe they heard an idiot looking for buckfast had arrived. Yep, amazing what a hire car capable off.
I knew a lot of you were well travelled, so its good that a few pics brings back some memories. Not a lot of bikes about, seen an 848 with my Christian name as the reg plate. Better run, pick a point on the sat nav and just see what happens. Thank you for the responses.
Really interesting to see the pics. Waterfall looked spectacular despite the weather. I've never been to Aus. Keep em coming.
I hear you have to set your watch back 40 years when you go to New Zealand, like when you go to the Isle of Wight.
Setting your watch back 40 years isn't necessarily a bad thing. I've always wanted to go to New Zealand, I hear it's great biking country. It's on my list of 'must do' rides.
Met many Kiwis travelling round Oz and a few Brits who had emigrated there. Apparently the fishing is very good in New Zealand too. Its good in Oz (compared with overcrowded and ecologically ravaged UK) but New Zealand is outstanding.
