I'm currently in Adelaide (at least for the next 18 hours) and so far it's been fantastic. After a nice, uneventful bus ride from Mt Gambier, I arrived here on Friday afternoon. I'm staying with a girl that I met in Carlisle, England.
Saturday we went to some wineries. Adelaide is known for it's surrounding wine region, and there are definitely a lot of wineries.
Yesterday we went to Gorge Wildlife Conservatory (or something close to that name). They weren't doing any more koala holdings for the day because of the heat (yay heat!) but Caragh used to work there, so the owner was kind enough to still let me hold one. It basically just chilled in my arms for five minutes, not moving much at all.
I also got to pet some kangaroos and wallabies. When there is a joey in the pouch with its feet sticking out instead of its head, it looks kind of bizarre.
The beach here is beautiful. Some high school looking kids were jumping off the pier into the clear blue water and it looked like so much fun. Unfortunately, we did not bring swimming-appropriate clothing so we had to settle for wading up to our knees. The water was a little chilly, but mostly great and seriously, so beautiful.
Today we went to see some waterfalls and then back to the beach. This beach, however, didn't have much sand but rather really pretty rocks - lots of different colors and all layered in colors. A thunderstorm was rolling in over the ocean so we watched that for a while before decided that it was starting to surround us and getting precariously close. It's still rumbling outside.
Tomorrow I head out to Sydney.
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