It's been a few days, so backtracking: we left Peterborough and travelled south through very, very dry country towards Adelaide. We stopped at a weird little town called Burra, hmmm get the feeling that they think it's more special than it is; anyway we popped up to see the old miners' dugouts from 1800s. They were in Creek street - because they were dug out on either side of the creek!  and then we hurried on south.

We spent the night in Gawler, a large commercial town with all the
facilities and some lovely quaint cottages with nearly every garden full of gorgeous roses. Gawler doesn't feature in any of the tourist area guides, it's not part of the southern Flinders, not part of the Barossa, not the Murray River, not on the Yorke Peninsula and is outside the Adelaide Hills, poor Gawler no one claims it.

Next we went to Birdwood and the National Motor Museum. The museum is like the tardis, much bigger on the inside than it appears from the outside. We could have got a job there proof reading the exhibit notes, quite a few errors.

So it was onto Adelaide through rolling, twisting, 'exciting' roads down through the hills into a caravan park in a quiet leafy suburb. There was a bus stop next to the caravan park so the next day we got our all day ticket and headed into the city. Then we jumped on a tram to Glenelg (along with lots of others heading out to the beach because of the 35 degrees forecast).

It's only been a few years since Wendy was in Glenelg, the building along the foreshore is now complete, but Michael was last there in 1975, he noticed a lot of changes. Glenelg reminded us of Key West, but without the 'beautiful people'!
Back into the city and a trip a bus along the O bahn out to a shopping centre for coffee and a toilet stop before changing to another bus 'home'.

 Sunday was market and museum day, Port Adelaide markets then out to St Kilda for the Aus Electric Transport Museum (trams and trolley buses).                        

We were lucky enough to be able to stay overnight at the museum and met a lovely couple of CMCAers (motorhomers) who live in St Kilda and the next morning they showed us around the little township. Which rumour has it will soon have an area for overnight parking and a dump point. It is a lovely spot, masses of birdlife and a great adventure playground - enjoyed by young and old.

We left Adelaide after lunch so that we could use the 'one-way Expressway' 

In the morning the 3 lane highway is open northbound, ie into Adelaide, and in afternoon it's open southbound out of Adelaide: something not to be missed!

 

Having left the big city we popped into McLaren Vale and then on down to spend the night next to the ocean at Lady Bay. The next day it was down to Port Jervois to see the Kangaroo Island ferry arrive and depart - the most expensive ferry crossing in Aus? To take the motorhome over would be $106 +$3.20 for every 10cms over 6metres (it's 7metres long), that's just one way, same price for return trip. We didn't go!

We took the Fleurieu Way across the peninsula to Victor Harbor - a great road travelling through some valleys and then across the top of the range, then suddenly there's this fantastic view across the town with the ocean and the islands! Beautiful! 

We came to Victor Harbor to ride on the Horse Drawn Tram and were thinking of spending 3 nights here, but it turns out the Tram is not running this week because they are doing road and footpath work at the terminus and the big machines scare the horses!!They are hoping to get it done by Saturday but we're not stopping that long. Our first disappointment of the trip!