Up early and on towards the Barossa and Clare districts of South Australia
One unpleasant sight would be the water pipelines that seem to traverse most of South Australia – with almost every town dependant on the not-so-mighty Murray river, piping its water hundreds of km around the state.
We stopped in Tanunda and did a walk that went past four different wineries. We stopped at the first two ‘cellar doors’ and Rich had a wonderful time, tasting and spitting, tasting and spitting. Kim tasted, swallowed twice and then had to sit down at every opportunity with a spinning head. We did eventually stop going to the cellar doors, because Rich couldn’t stop purchasing a bottle of everything he tasted! Still the walk was lovely …. Especially as the wallet got lighter and lighter! The area is stunning and it was nice to see all the famous wineries represented along the way – Jacob’s Creek, Penfolds, Annie’s Lane, Wolf Blass etc.
We stopped for the night at the Clare Caravan Park – a lovely little spot and did a pretty cycle ride this afternoon along a rail trail – I felt like I was living in a tourist brochure! Seems Kim can multi-task sending her girls an SMS while cycling.
Not getting much study done unfortunately ….. ah well, another long drive tomorrow so maybe I will get down to something then.
RichMax
PS For those of you who are wondering what the ‘Max’ part is … my middle name is Maxine, and Richard frequently calls me ‘Mad Max’. We adopted the Richmax label for our geo-caching (that is another story altogether) – and the Max has just kind of continued on into our Round Oz Blog.
4 comments:
texting the girls? I didn't get a text yesterday!!!!!
Glad to see you are having fun though!
Sounds wonderful guys - wow Wolfblass and Jacob's Creek - dad would have been in heaven - let me know how the geo-caching goes.. Love you
Sounds divine. Did you end up having to drive, Kim or was Richard in a more stable state after your couple of swallows?!
Moderation in all things Denise!
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