All Posts in Order: Riverlands 2014, it's a wrap.

PS Captain Proud

Part One:

Murray Bridge, The PS Captain Proud and the river

Take the Southeastern Freeway, headed for a lunch date on a real, genuine paddle wheel riverboat. Pelicans, water skiers, wide skies ... and some very good food!

Dawn at Blanchetown

Part Two:

Murray Bridge to Blanchetown

Mannum, Len Kroehn's Lookout, houseboats and swamp hens in the wetlands at Blanchetown ... kookaburras in the pink of the dawn, and hit the road early.

Murray River at Morgan

Part Three:

Pelican Point, Broken Cliffs and Morgan

Some truly spectacular erosion, a six-foot pelican, a drive on the ferry across the river ... bacon and eggs, white faced herons, and -- did we just run out of road?

Overland Corner Hotel

Part Four:

The food basket of South Aus ... the proverbial "pub in the scrub"

The richest farm country imaginable -- it's orchards and vineyards wherever you look; wetlands being rescued, and ... step back in time to 1859 at the Overland Corner, a hotel, in the wilderness!

Banrock Station

Part Five:

Banrock Station winery and wetlands, and waterbirds at Murray River Lock 3

Lock gates, pelicans and egrets ... Banrock Station -- a world famous winery and ecology project. Lake Bonney, and Berri... 

The Big Ram, Karoonda

Part Six:

Wine by the truckload, the world's biggest sheep, and one amazing sunset

Shades of green at Loxton, wheat to the horizon in the Murray Mallee, the biggest sheep imaginable at Karoonda, and a sunset made to order on the Southeastern Freeway for home.  

All posts in order: Fleurieu 2011

   




Preview: Headed south on the Fleurieu for three days...

One: Clarendon, McLaren Vale and Myponga Reservoir
Riverbend Park, Claredon, vineyards, Sellicks Beach, Woodstock Wines, the Almond Train, Myponga Dam on the reservoir, and the oddest compass...

Two: Sunset, Moonrise, the Sealink -- and a lot more
Carrickalinga, wind farms, the Sealink, Cape Jervis, misty cliffs, sunset and moonrise in Normanville, Moreton Bay Figs, Leonard's Mill, Rapid Bay and an amazing jetty, Second Valley Delamere...

 


Three: Surf, sea birds, sailboats and stormy weather coming up!
Parson's Beach, surfers, Newland Head, Victor Harbour, Petrel Cove, ship-killer rocks, paddle steamer, Goolwa Bridge, Hindmarsh Island, pelicans ... and rain! 

Four: Stormy weather over South Australia's Lakes District
Tookayerta Creek, Finniss, black swans, Lake Alexandrina, wetlands, sailboats, little corellas, Bleasdale Wines, Langhorne Creek,  fog and deer near Hahndorf.

All posts in order: Naracoorte 2009, done and dusted

Alexandra Cave, Naracoote 

Naracoorte 2009: Preview
...where we're headed, what's on the agenda, from wetlands to wet caves and a dry lagoon,  limestone caverns, Larry the Biiig Lobster, the Coorong, and a lot more.

St. Andrew's, Strathalbyn

Strathalbyn and points east
Cloudy skies in the morning ... Wellington Ferry ... Tailem Bend for lunch, and on into grain country -- Coomandook, Coonaplyn and Culbara. 

Land Rover on a Pole: Keith

Keith - Padthaway - Naracoorte
The Land Rover on a pole (the real deal!), the wind harp, and the swimming lake ... it's a long haul from Tailem Bend to Naracoorte!

Wonambi Fossil Centre

The Wonambi Fossil Centre and the Alexandra Cave
Breakfast by the lake ... wrestling skeletons at Wonambi ... and let's get underground on the Limestone Coast!

Megafauna!

Megafauna! And ... where's the water? Bool Lagoon in 2009
Extinct creatures are brought to life, we step back in time in the Wet Cave, and then the bird sactuary of Bool Lagoon turns out to be ... well, in a word...

The Big Lobster, Kingston S.E.

Fossils and Ibis and Lobsters -- oh, my!
The Victoria Fossil Cave ... Thylacaleo in person ... ibis in profusion, horses on vacation, the world's oddest sundial, the lighthouse that came ashore, and -- Larry the Lobster himself! In other words, Naracoorte to Kingston S.E., in time for lunch.

The Coorong, near Salt Creek

The Coorong at last -- and the sun shone!
The Princess Highway ... Salt Creek ... a lot of black swans and a little bit of history ... and the Coorong is so pretty in the sunshine. Perfect!

Murray River, Wellington Ferry

Meningie - Wellington - Strathalbyn: almost home
Leaving the Coorong, heading home via the dairy country and Meningie on Lake Albert. Around the Lakes District to Wellington, which has been invaded by parrots; then evening light over Strathalbyn...

All posts in order: Clare Valley 2013 ... it's a wrap

Main street, Aldgate

Part one: Breakfast in Aldgate ... Colonial history in Birdwood ... welcome swallows on the Whispering Wall

Barossa valley vineyards

Part two: Barossa Valley and due north ... Clare Valley sunset

Seven Hills wine casks

Part three: Seven Hills, St. Aloysius and the Madonna of the Vines ... tranquility in the Clare Valley

Heritage town, Mintaro

Part four: Clare to Mintaro and Burra: wines and mines, heat and dust

Burra Creek Gorge at World's End

Part five: World's End and Burra Creek Gorge ... watching out for Mad Max!

Viterra silos at Balaklava

Part Six: Balaklava to Port Wakefield -- the top of the gulf

Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula

Part Seven: Destination Ardrossan, on Yorke Peninsula

Queens Park, Moonta

Part eight: Moonta and lunch - Wallaroo - Snowtown - sunset in Clare before dinner

Martindale Hall, near Mintaro

Part Nine: 'Red sky at morning,' Mr. Mick's for lunch ... meet The Ghost of Martindale Hall ... coffee in Mintaro, and -- homeward bound