St Kilda Adventure Playground

A free adventure playground for kids of all ages. It was a cool day today and we had talked about going out somewhere for a picnic lunch so we combined the two.

Jordan is up the top among other kids.

Warren and Aidan came down this but I think I missed them.

It was about 45 minutes away from the caravan park but well worth it.

On the way we drove past Scotties motel. Love Scotties ever since we went there to stay for a night soon after we were married, yep! That long ago!

Warren had stayed there once for work and they all pigged out on oysters kilpatrick, work was picking up the tab!

When we stayed there a year or so later, he suggested I try them, yum! love them but unfortunately Warren cant eat them any more because of the soy and his gluten stuff.

Miss Fisher's clothes

At Ayre house today and until Sunday 14 Feb is a display of her clothes/costumes that were made for the show including hats.

There were about six or seven rooms with the costumes and telling which series they were used in.

In front of the dresses was an explanation of who made it, there were four main dressmakers for the show, what episode they were in and most times a swatch of material that could be felt. Many of the fabrics were silk as she does play a well to do miss.

Much of the beading and lace work has been hand sewn. I bought one of the DVDs and was watching an episode yesterday when I heard about the display, so pleased to have been able to see it, even though I am def not a fashionista as such.

Adelaide the city of Churches

There really are some beautiful old buildings in Adelaide, some of them are Churches.

We were going to the city today by bus,well that fell in a heap as we couldn't get into the shopping centre to buy a ticket for the bus, then we couldn't find anywhere to park to walk to the shops. Warren says stuff it we will drive to Hindmarsh square, about eight kms away and then walk to North terrace.

Found a park, with a big 3, no problems then I read the sign more closely, darn, 3 hours was on weekends, one hour was for Mon to Fri. Buggar, thats no good to us. GPS, find a parking station, ha! only 110 metres, only trouble was it was full. Finally we found one reasonably close and wound our way up to the top. ducking our heads in the car as it was low! One metre point nine five, not sure how high our car is but it couldnt have clear it by much.

Walking to Ayre House we saw that the museum had an exhibition on Coober Pedy, whoops did a swift left turn and paid a visit. Excellent showing would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for all the opal that was on display. There was even a mock up of an underground mine, not sure if photos were allowed but I didn't take any, it was amazing.

Lunch was pretty good. Think we blew the budget today but did see two unusual exhibitions.

The Art Gallery, we did step in here as we had been told that there had been an aboriginal art display unfortunately it had finished. The building was pretty impressive though. 

 

Riding the Tramways in Adelaide.

We drove to Glenelg this morning to catch the tram into the city.

It was a beautiful day around 32 degrees, the sky was blue and the sun was out and so were a lot of people.

Two and three year olds had been running thru the fountains, just lucky to get a time when they were all out (I dont like to take pics of little kids)

This was the tram we caught.

I wanted to have lunch in the mall but there didnt seem to be many places to actually eat so we went downstairs to the underground food mall. OMGoodness what a choice, we went to a Japanese eating place and I got sushi.

Our lunch.

Mall entertainment but this guy was the best and boy was he working hard.

Birdwood National Motor Museum.

We couldnt go past this the other day. I was surprised at how big it was and the amount of cars and bikes that were displayed. I also loved the building that it used to be in which had been an old flour mill.

Inside the museum.

and the bikes

It reminded me of a Chinese shopping centre but these were all different. Warren went looking for his bike, didnt find it but did find a bike he was given a ride on, it was a 1100 something.  I remember him saying after the ride that it went from nothing to 70mph with no effort at all. Much bigger than anything he had ridden before or since.

I remember seeing this one one at the Olypmics, it was a real phone and the athletes could ring home for free.

There was also a pursuit car with Detroit Police Dept on it which seemed a little out of place until we read the info on it. Apparently the cars were designed and produced in Australia for the Northern American police force as they had a long wheel base, I did not know that. Strange that GMH would export cars to America but that was what it stated. 

Cruising the Murray

We had to pack up and drive to Murray Bridge for our cruise to be there at 10.45 am, we were an hour early! As we were under the bridge, it brought back some memories, our family were going to Adelaide and on the bridge when there was a bump, Dad stopped the car to look, it was a falt and too bad to continue driving. He changed it in twelve minutes and no one was allowed to get out and help as too many cars were driving past.
Warren remembered going home by train from school and all the boys would throw their empty drink bottles out through the pylons, couldnt do it now.

The cruise was excellent, so serene and lunch was pretty good too. After giving our lunch orders we were able to walk on the decks

The paddles could be seen through the ladies wash room.

The scenery was pretty special

With the weekend "shacks" on the edge of the river.

After three very peaceful hours on the river we took Maggie down to the big smoke, got set up and having a swim, when we saw this in the trees.

He was about twelve metres up above the laundry, that is his tree but is not always there.

Gumeracha Toy factory

I had seen pictures of this years ago and when I realised we were pretty close, 40 minutes away, it was put on the agenda to visit. It has the largest rocking horse in the world, I think.

The toys were incredible, all wooden and well put together. Luckily for us, our grandkids except one are too old for the ride on tractors etc. I did buy a nice chopping board for the van though, its a little one and of course wood.

Out the back there was a bush park with recused animals. We bought some food and paid our entry fee, $1 and proceeded to walk and feed the animals.

I was rather taken by this guys feathers and the colours were stunning too.

Warren feeding a kangaroo, at one time he put his front paw on my arm while he was eating. Very friendly.

They did have a couple of emus as well but they were behind the fence, I dont like emus.