Taj 2

Halls Gap – Adelaide

When we got to  Mt Gambier it looked like there was nothing to do.  It was really boring, we played some games of Bocci.  Then Grumps found out about a Sinkhole that turned out to be a garden.  So we went there and one sinkhole was really good, the other one was really bad.  At the first sinkhole which was the good one, there were possums and rats that had made homes in the limestone walls of the sinkhole.  I patted a baby possum and its Mum, they were really soft and I wanted to take them home.  We were running around the sinkhole trying to find possums, it was exciting and we had so much fun.  At the second sinkhole there wasn’t much to see and it made Ryley and I really nauseous  We left that one pretty quick! We went to the Blue Lake which was amazing.  Its set on top of Australia’s youngest volcano.  We also went to see a documentary about volcanoes in Australia.

When we got to Robe we went to look at the Obelisk.  You could see all the reefs.  Once we got back to the caravan I made some new friends and we wanted to race with them on the jumping pillow.  We had fun but then they had to leave to go home we made up a game called Supersmash Bros and we played it on the jumping pillow.  At night we went to the beach, Ryley and I were fishing for a bit then we got bored and started jumping on cliffs and making them collapse.  Grandma caught a lot of crabs.

Next stop was Victor Harbour.  When we got there Dad, Ryley and I went for a drive to The Bluff and we started to fish there because Ryley found some line.  When Ryley caught the fish I went to measure them and throw them back.  I knocked them out because I didn’t throw them properly.  We caught Leather Jacket and Tommy Rough.  All up I caught a trevally, parrot fish, Tommy Rough and a crab.  We went across to Granite Island on a horse drawn tram.  We saw sting rays, a seal, dolphins and little penguin holes.  It was really fun even though we didn’t get to do a Little Penguin excursion.  We also saw two more seals at the Bluff.  On the last day we went for a train ride along the coast.  It was a Cockle train like Puffin Billy.  I got picked to go in the drivers cabin, it was very cool.

We stayed at a Big 4 caravan Park in Adelaide, there was two jumping pillows, two pools, three playgounds and you could hire a go cart. The bad part was that aeroplanes landed next to the park all day and all night and they were really loud.  From West Beach I scootered into Glenelg and I got a drink, I drank a bit then I had to get going because a boat was coming and the drawbridge was going to lift up.  We went on the jumping pillows.  We also went to the Adelaide Zoo. The Adelaide Zoo has the only Giant Pandas in Australia.  They were very lazy like a sloth when we saw them the first time but the next time we saw them they were moving.  I went in a bird aviary and saw a Tawny Frog mouth.  I thought that the bird aviaries were amazing because they had so much different varieties of birds.  We saw the hippopotamus and lots of monkeys.  There was one really cheeky monkey who knocked over the keepers broom and tried to steal her walkie talkie.  One of the Gibbons was having a fight with the water hen, it was so funny, he kept on hitting the water hen on the head and when the water hen tried to peck him he’d run away. I also saw a Tasmanian devil, it looked like a dog.  We saw a Bilby that was running and one that was snoring.

 

We just dropped Tamsyn’s friend Jordan off at the airport and now were heading to the Barossa Valley.  By next week we’ll be in Western Australia.