Adelaide

We have been in Adelaide and surrounding areas today. We were greeted by a couple that are good friends of our other Aussie friends, Margaret and Murray, who arranged for us to get together. Temperature here today was 98º with a UV index of 10 out of 10, so we were pleased not to have to be outside the entire day nor to have to do an excessive amount of walking. Margaret and Graham were our hosts, and our first stop was at the site of the signing of documents that created the state of South Australia in which Adelaide is situated. The site is located near a remnant of an unusual gum tree.

Here are the four of us later, just before we entered the community of Victor Harbor, down the coast from Adelaide.

We took a horse-drawn tram out to an island and back along a causeway.

JJ was the horse who pulled us over and back, and he was well attended and loved by this gal who saw to our trip.

Saw some beautiful pelicans.

And had a terrific meal and superb wine at a small winery between Adelaide and Victor Harbor.

This if for Will and Sandy, primarily. This is a well-known tree that aboriginals once began to use to shape a canoe by removing bark and having the tree shape itself into the desired form. Eventually, it would have been cut and further hewed. An interesting way to build a canoe.