Cleland Wildlife Park in the Adelaide Hills, 3 January, 2011
Close to the Moutn Lofty Summit, this wildlife conservation park has enclosures with all sorts of different Aussie animals. You can buy a bag of feed and most of them eat right from your hand, emus included- a little scary- but some are off limits like the wombats (I guess they bite?) and the tasmania devils, oh and the dingos. However, there was no warning about not feeding the Magpie geese even though one tried to eat my finger.
Big Red
Little Grey
Tassie Devil!
These ones bite! Magpie Goose
Innes National Park, Yorke Peninsula for Andy's Birthday weekend, January 21-23, 2011
Andy wanted to go fishing for his birthday so I arranged a charter "Unreel Fishing Escapades" out of Marion Bay and Innes National Park at the bottom tip of the Yorke Peninsula (about 300km from Adelaide). Andy's friends Sean and Liam were in town so we all hopped in the car for a weekend of camping and fishing. After having the charter moved from Saturday to Sunday because of 25knot winds we spent Saturday poking arounf the park, saw some wild emus and a few kangaroos. Then Sunday morning we packed up the tents and went out on the boat for the day. I ended up being sea sick three times, but still caught the biggest fish! We caught the limit on Nanigai aka red snapper, a few regular snapper, a few big Blue Morong aka Queen snapper, and some other weird things like leather jackets and some kind of parrot fish. Unfortunately the photos I took on the boat are forever lost as the camera was later lost before I'd had a chance to upload. It was great weekend that almost ended in disaster as we were running out of gas in the car on the drive back and the little Yorke Peninsula towns were all closed for the night (almost everything closes at 5pm on Sunday everywhere in Australia). We ended up finding the pub in the town of Minalton open and were quickly helped out by the very friendly locals. Close call though, phew.
Our site
Emus
Steadfast Bay Jetty
Pondelowie Bay
Southern Ocean
About a quarter of our catch
Post Charter filleting
Full Freezer
Australia Day 2011 One Day International at the Adelaide Oval, AUS v. ENG
A perfect Adelaide day
Andy is one of few with an England top on this time...
Enjoying some sort of weird Aussie Day Parade during the break
Incredible sunset over the Oval
Of the seven One Day Internationals the one on Australia Day was the only one the English won.
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