... and gardening of course!
After a leisurely Monday we moved last Tuesday to get rid of our garden. Although at least three green thumbs were involved, it was pretty sweaty.
The result was:
A vegetable garden (as yet without vegetables). Since we are busy Cologne brownies, do not we rested and prepared a delicious meal for our charming host. There was rice stuffed peppers and zucchini, served Löwenköttel . Since we are already at the gardeners are: yesterday we were back at work. The man and the woman with the scissors hands, made all kinds of plants an end.
Victor Harbor
On Wednesday, after we were jogging back with our guest dog, we went to fifth in the direction of water. First, our host father showed us the old port of Goolwa, where the previous weekend was the Wooden Boat Festival swum. Against the resistance of Aboriginal people there, a large bridge was built, which allowed us now, approaching to within sight of the mouth of the Murray River .
Next we went to one of the dams, the sea water from the river should keep away. Currently, however, the floodgates are open. South Australia experienced one of the wettest summer ever, and so the water pours out towards the sea - what the pelicans, but does not prevent the fish.
For best lunchtime we arrived at Victor Harbor and incorporated us an excellent chips (almost Belgian quality, 2 times as deep fried) and fish. Delicious thing, even without sauce. And the perfect tonic for a walk to Granite Iceland, situated directly in front of the town. Since there are to admire a horse-drawn Tram, waves crashing against rocks and in the evening several thousand penguins.
They come every day during their extended up to 25km fishing expeditions to the island.
Instead of waiting (and for the "leadership" to cough up properly), but rather we plunged himself into the waves. The mermaid was running with the seagulls to race and the shaft and the Holy Grail became acquainted with the only rocks of this beautiful sandy beach. 
Waterfalls and Wetlands
On Thursday we had our hiking instinct can finally run free on the way to Waterfall Gully, we searched for nearly two hours after the Eagle on the Hill. What the signs so promising sound was just a run down rest stop directly on the road. That was until about ten years ago the only way in the Adelaide Hills, previously was even raised Wegzoll. Down in the valley next to the road eats a kangaroo family - our first Kängus in the wild!
And the goal of our journey there was to marvel at waterfalls and at least as great fallen tree trunks;)
the way back up to the Mount Lofty grabbed us by ambition, photography was forbidden to drink permitted only during the run. On the way back to something cozier Park'n'Ride metropolis Crafers butterflies accompanied us in 1001 on our beautiful secluded path.
And thanks to our lovely host mother we knew shortly thereafter also serve that the Australians the best tacos (with the possible exception of a few Mexicans).
On Friday we walked from the apartment of our host sister about an hour in the local wetlands. Our goal: One of the famous public grills. Which are powered by electricity or gas, free (was because the coins stolen too often, as the half-hour still cost a dollar) and always in the company public toilets found (of which there are way almost 17,000 are in the country, if we have not lost count). We had a wonderful (radicals) BBQ and accordingly in the evening after a stroll through the Market in the City Cetral little hungry. Fortunately, we were at a Chinese table with rotating disk space, so we could order parts for rice and all. Particularly noteworthy is the (filled with wok vegetables) bird's nest!
Flinders Ranges
weekend we went to the South Australian mountains, named close to the main discoverer of the state. Went off early and the very Old Bakery Stone Hut was against the Pies with their journey noon we reached our quarters for the night, the peaceful village of Melrose at the foot of Mount Remarkable where we tested our tent, we slept in a family cabin Gastfmilie the Caravan Park. On Saturday we took no less than three walks, as we saw, not the nearly 1000 meter high summit took but a lot of other nice things. Classic evening BBQ, where we threw something (probably a Opposum) from the trees. And at night, the snakes moved their cars under the canopy.
Shortly after six, we felt their way back up the mountain to admire the sunrise. To a summit was not to think this time, after waiting for a birthday breakfast Maree on (British-German) and especially the north Flinders Ranges National Park 200 km.
is the highlight of the park Wilpena Pound (a couple of souped-up impressions here) - a 80 km ² large valley which is surrounded by mountains and only through a narrow passage is accessible. We walked into it, by an almost tropical landscape. Our hosts had already marveled at the journey out, as have many of the rain of the Outback has become green. All together we made it on a 720 meter-high Lookout and sang a birthday song. Moreover, even congratulated emus, kangaroos and (from the spider times apart), many goats. Latter, it should go a day later at the collar. As they chew all sorts of good and multiply rapidly, they are hunted by helicopter.
Well, the Outback is a rough area. Of these, we could us on the nearly six-hour trip to convince again. We are strengthened with the "worst fries in the country" in Port Wakefield. At Port Augusta the way we passed a coal power plant, which supplies almost all of South Australia with electricity. The coal for this comes from a place 150 km north of Wilpena Pound by train. Much cheaper can not restore power probably ... The
the has consequences for the environment, has been widely known already up in the Adelaide Hills. In the beautiful Stirling, where we were shopping on Monday, there are several options like buying environmentally friendly. We turned in Organic Market, were amazed at the prices (for example, a small parcel Tartex for over 5 €), and found at least an affordable milk powder that we use soon.
morning it is namely to Melbourne (hosted uncle and aunt ;-)) and on Saturday finally to the Great Ocean Walk - Adventure (spiders, snakes, rain ...) we come! Up in 14 days!
