Sunday - the route we taking is on the Fleurieur Peninsula, named by a French explorer in 1802. We drove through Strathalbyn, a quaint town with lovely stone buildings, situated on the Angas River, first settled by Scottish immigrants in 1839.

At Port Elliot we stopped at Freemans Nob at Foreshore Bay, beautiful views of Victor Harbor. At Victor Harbor we walked across the 600m causeway to Granite Island and around the island. The road to Cape Jervis winds through green rolling hills, reminded us of New Zealand, so pretty! Cape Jervis is the departure point for daily ferry services to Kangaroo Island.

The following morning we drove up the west coast of the Fleurieur Peninsula hugging the coastline stopping here and there, seeing Rapid Bay (see the boulder where South Australian’s founding father, Colonel Light, carved his initials after he stepped ashore from his ship “The Rapid”), Normanville, Sellicks Beach, Aldinga Beach, Maslin Beach (use to be a nudist beach, apparently Australia’s first legal nudist beach), Moana, Seaford etc. a real pretty route. We booked into the Belair National Park Caravan Park, a few km’s from Adelaide, the Belair National Park is the second oldest National Park in Australia.

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia with a population of 1.1 million. It is one of the best planned cities in the world, its architect, Colonel William Light, laid it out in 1836 on a square mile grid pattern with wide streets and a buffer zone of green encircling the entire city. Our niece, Susan, who recently moved to Adelaide from South Africa, and her fiancé Simon made a turn on the Wednesday evening, was lovely to see them and get to meet Simon. We left Belair on the Thursday, drove to the Mount Lofty summit, the 710m above sea level peak of the Mount Lofty Ranges in the Adelaide Hills provides lovely views over Adelaide and the escarpment. Went to Glenelg and Brighton, both seaside suburbs situated in Holdfast Bay and only 20 minutes from Adelaide city. Glenelg Beach is Adelaide’s most popular beach, we took a walk along the Glenelg jetty then drove to the Windsor Gardens Caravan Park, just north of the Adelaide CBD.

In the Adelaide CBD we walked through the botanical gardens to North Terrace looking at the lovely old buildings, (the Uni building was awesome), we think it is a lovely city. On Saturday we left Adelaide heading north of the city to the Barossa Valley. The Barossa has a 160 year old winemaking history established by English and German settlers. We drove through various small towns that form part of the Barossa Valley, very scenic with rolling hills, little villages, historical churches and stone buildings. The scenery would look real lovely when everything is in bloom. Drove to Mengler Hill for lovely views over the valley, then along the Seppeltsfield Road, named after the Seppelt family, Jospeh Seppelt started his winery in 1851. The street is lined with date palms planted during the Great Depression providing local families with work. Towns we passed where Gawler (established 1839, pop. 20 000), Bethany (Barossa’s oldest German settlement established 1842, pop. 80), Lyndoch (established 1837, pop. 1 400, home to the Lavender farm), Tanunda (German settlers flocked here, pop. 4 000), Light Pass (the explorer Colonel Light was looking for a passage through the ranges to the Murray River in the 1830’s thus naming the spot, pop. 70), Nuriootpa (the commercial centre of the Barossa, pop. 5 500) and Kapunda (was a rich copper mining centre until 1879, the town then became the centre for a thriving pastoral industry and later became the home of the world’s largest private landowner, Sir Sidney Kidman – the cattle king).