Departing Melbourne 8/6

Departed for new pastures again. We tidied Theos' apartment after our stay there and headed off. First stop was Echuca, where Ang was born, we found the hospital, and also had a quick look at the port and river.
In the car again and off for Wodonga, there was not much for us there so we decided to push on to get more km's done, so we decided to push on to Corryong, the edge of the Snowies. We found another caravan park and got a cabin for the night.

Regards,
Mike Gentile

To Melbourne 3/6 - 7/6 GO HAWKS

Before leaving Colac we went to visit Ang's grandmother in a nursing home, since she now suffers with alzheimers. It has been about 10 years since Ang had seen her. Weput peanut in her lap and she seemed to respond to having a baby pn her lap and even clapped to entertain her. It had been about 20 years since seeing her aunt and never for the 2 cousins.
After seeing omar, we moved on to Melbourne via Geelong. We also stopped off at Hoppers Crossing, near Werribee, to see a friend of mine, Terri, that I haven't seen for over 10 years.
We then moved on to Pot Melbourne and to the big malaka's (Theos) house, where we will be staying for the next 5 days.
Thursday we caught up with another friend of mine, Kristine, lunch near her work. It happened to be across the park from the MCG, so Ang and I decided to do the tour and the sport museum. The tour was pretty good, going through the members areas and press areas and we also got to go on the ground near the interchange area.
Friday, we decided to go on a bit of a drive, we ended up near waverley, out east, but I couldn't find the hawks training ground. It was fun juzt driving around exploring. Friday evening we caught up with Dieter as well.
Then on saturday we caught up with another friend of mine, Karli, for luunch at exhibition square. Great to catch up with friends. Since Terri supports Carlton and Ang goes for Brisbane, we went back to Terri's house to watch the game from Brisbane. Ang wasn't too happy, Carlton got the chocolates

Road to Colac 2/6

Before leaving Mount Gambier we went and saw the blue lake, which is in the cone of a volcano and it was very blue.
We left Mount Gambier and followed the great ocean road. We stopped at the bay of isles, loch ard gorge, london bridge and the 12 apostles, we also stopped at a couple of other lookouts.
This then brought us to the Otway ranges, which we were going to drive through to go up to Colac. Ang has a grandmother, aunty, uncle and 2 cousins. We stayed with family for the night, with a big roast for dinner and Ciara had charmed the whole family whilst we were there.


Regards,
Mike Gentile

Robe's not famous for robes

Departed Adelaide this morning. We passed through Murray Bridge, apparent the first bridge across the Murray river is the old iron bridge we crossed.
We ate lunch in Kingston SE and then continued on to Robe (Robe's not famous for robes) ;) also, at Robe we followed a limestone track to a blow hole, but it wasn't blowin :(, we also saw the old gaol there.
We stayed the night at a caravan park in Mount Gambier. Before settling down for the night we went and Umpheston sink hole. This is where erosion, water, has washed earth away underneath and then the surface has colapsed.

Regards,
Mike Gentile

Hawks game 31/5

Not impressed, hawks played absolute crap. Beaten by 27 points, though crows did play well. Ciara also did well,she even slept through the last quarter and through the wait for the bus.

Not happy Jan.


Regards,
Mike Gentile

Still in Adelaide

Yesterday (29/5) we went out for a drive to the Adelaide hills, to Hahndorf for a ride, a settlement of Germans that was started in 1839. Lots of very old stone buildings, but apart from names or the type of food and drink, you couldn't really guess it was German, very nice little town though. I had a currywurst, which is a German sausage with curry tomato sauce over the sausage and also some curry powder as well, was very much like an Oktoberfest meal.

We then decided to just drive around the hills, and followed a couple of scenic drives and eventually found the giant rocking horse. We then found the Gorge scenic drive, which was along some very narrow roads and up and down some windy roads on some of the hills. This also took us past the Kangaroo creek catchment area for part of the Adelaide power supply.

Today (30/5) we went for a drive to the Barossa Valley for a look around, we weren't that interested in Wine tasting, more looking and and seeing a few things other than wine in the area. Jiggles was our tour director. It was a very nice area to look around, was pretty quiet there though today. We had a walk around Angaston, a pie from a bakery in Tanunda, a look at the Lyndoch lavender farm, a keg coopers work shop and a Greenock brewery. :)

Next we have the footy tomorrow Adelaide v HAWTHORN.

In Adelaide

We have been in Adelaide for 2 nights already.
We arrived on Tuesday evening at George and Kirsty's. Ciara was absolutely wrapped with having more than just an evening out of the car, though she has had a funny day today.
On the trip from Port Lincoln to Adelaide we were going to use the Ferry from Lucky Bay across and save driving about 350 kms via Port Augusta. WEhilst waiting for the ferry, I asked what time can we check in, we were early though and was told that it was in for its annual service until Friday. Just our luck the week we want to use it.
So we had to drive all the way around the gulf, we decided to do it and get it done instead of staying in a hotel for another night.
We arrived at George and Kirsty's by about 5;30pm, Kirsty warned us about traffic, but if that was traffic and for Adelaide apparently it is, I wish I was always in that little traffic, but then we are in Adelaide and the "heavy" traffic was still flowing at the allowed speed limit.
Yesterday we had a walk around the foreshore of Glenelg North, where Kirsty lives and it seems very nice area to live.
Today we went in to Rundell Mall and had a look around, we ended up buying a new camera, my birthday present, and I am very happy with the limited time I have had to play with it so far. It is a Lumix (Panasonic) DMC-TZ6. With 12x optical zoom and 10.1 megapixels.
Also tonight we went out for dinner to the Glenelg Surf Club, I had an extra hot beef vindaloo, but it wasn't that hot but still nice.