Monday, May 30, 2016

Day 21: Tue 31 May - Adelaide, 10-18 deg, fine in the morning, afternoon shower

It was not so cold for the early morning walk in the dark this morning. Saw some fine examples of the Federation homes around this suburb and many very flash and expensive new ones too. Have only seen a few for sale signs up and every one of them had "sold" pasted across them. 

We had a leisurely breakfast and then hit the bikes for a ride to Port Adelaide. The ride to the city was on one of our favourite off-road paths along the Torrens but the next 10km was on an on-road bike path down the side of a fairly busy road so not as pleasant. The Port itself has a great heritage area with many old fine buildings and a couple of ships. The oldest surviving Clipper Ship in the world is there awaiting funding for restoration; a huge undertaking. Had a coffee and headed home as the weather seemed to be getting a bit ordinary. Just made it home before the showers started again.  A 43km round trip so we could afford to take it a little easy in the afternoon doing admin. Wendy is off to Sydney early in the morning so she had some work to do online and iron uniforms etc. 

Anglican Church Walkerville

A nice federation style house at Walkerville

The Adelaide O-Bahn 

The O-Bahn rail system

Adelaide Botanic Garden HQ

Port Adelaide

Port Adeladie wharf area

City of Adelaide clipper undergoing restoration


New footbridge from the city to Adelaide Oval


Waterfall off the footbridge

The City of Adelaide in her hay-day



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