It’s been quite a while after our first longer road trip in Australia, but just couldn’t start writing about it. We were too busy, and quite lazy. But finally here’s the first post.
So, the first road trip from Adelaide to Melbourne and back.
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Here’s our route. We drove along the coast to Melbourne and inland back to Adelaide. We did about 2000 km, but it’s just basically nothing on the map. You just drive and drive…
Little details and impressions from Luka’s notebook. It was drawn while going on the highway. We pass only a couple of cars, asphalt is old and very noisy. There’s a gap in doors and the wind is making a terrible noise. We jammed it with the only thing we could reach in the mess inside the car – a couple of socks. It’s inevitable when you pack 3 quite tall people and their things in the little, nearly adult Corolla.
Despite the car was already full, we saw a garage sale and went there. We had to show it to Reda, our joy and the inexhaustible source of junk. A pile of books, a bowl, a backpack and a big set of pencils, stamps and markers were tucked where ever it was possible. On the side road a guy with stylish hat was playing a guitar and selling mangoes. Oh yes, it’s the season of perfect mangoes now! All happy we left the city. Bought coffee for Reda in the little town, and some cookies, with too mush of soda. The baker must have been in love 🙂
We crossed the river by ferry. The river is like a road – with road, well, river signs.
We posed at the salt lake. It was a really strange feeling, if you were walking on the thin ice. But the sun was burning and everything was pink.
The snow of salt.
We didn’t go very far on our first day. We stopped at Coorong National Park – the place where a lot of birds live. However, we were not very lucky, as it was terrible windy there.
Laurius with the sand dunes and lagoon in the background.
It was really lots of birds there, just very far away. Black Swans.
And who knows what other birds. We put our tent under the bush where little Willie had his nest in. So, as you can expect, he or she wasn’t very happy. The wind wasn’t going down in the evening, so we just hid in the tent. There were only old people with there trailers resting around. But the funniest part is, that the toilet is about 2 km away from the campsite. You can never understand Australians 🙂