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| Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| What I did on my holidays.... |
Take 2 not-as-small-as-they-used-to-be children, add 1 friend each, a refrigerated truck full of food, one full tank of petrol and drive.
Today we did a road trip, I try to do one of these per week of the holidays. We travelled 240km.
We went to Ingalalla Falls, they were pretty, but not climbable so we looked then got back in the car. We headed to the Starfish Hill windfarm. The 2 visiting kiddies had never seen it - I love the view - it is a surreal art landscape of modern windmills. I don't understand the claims about noise - it is almost impossible to hear the low thrum thrum over the fierce winds. Watching the rain come in over the ocean from Kangaroo Island was magnificent.
From there we discovered Talisker Conservation Park - containing the remnents of Talisker Mine. Having tramped all around the historical area we then jumped back in the now exceedingly muddy car & headed for Selwyn's Glacier Rock.
That was pretty awesome - just the history and the size of the rock - plus its really pretty :-)
Determining that the kiddies were not suitably exhausted, we then headed for Victor Harbour & Granite Island. Made them walk the entire perimeter of the island (including causeway there & back); we were rewarded by the sight of fairy penguins in their nests and the awesome power of the ocean. Plus some beautiful interference patterns caused by waves going around the island.
Overall a good day - all are tired, but that good, well earned exhaustion, which will hopefully lead them all to dreamlessly sleep for a long time.
Apologies for lack of photos - discovered too late the camera battery was dead :-( |
posted by Blue @ 5:58 pm  |
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Do they let you ride the 'roos on Kangaroo Island?
No pics. Bummer. Guess you'll just have to go back and do it again.
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sounds great and it beats the hell outta how i spent mine
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Do they let you ride the 'roos on Kangaroo Island?
No pics. Bummer. Guess you'll just have to go back and do it again.