So the last two weeks have flown by. We arrived in Castlemaine on thursday afternoon, Nov 18th. It was so lovely to see our grandmother Bibi again. It had been 14 months for me and 10 months for Andreas. We love our Bibi. We were all staying with Bibi's son and his wife and children. Since the home isn't to big we tented out in the backyard. The weather was first cool when we got there, but it warmed up beautifully for the weekend. We celebrated little Annie's 1st birthday on the Saturday. This is Bibi's first biological grandaughter. She was enjoying having the time with her grandaughter.
On the Sunday we drove into Bendigo and walked around the lovely city and did some shopping.
Monday morning we left and drove South towards Geelong, grocery shopped and then headed out onto the Great Ocean road, one of the most famous beautiful scenic drives of Victoria. Though the day was so sunny, clear and warm inland, once we headed out on the coast the sky was so foggy. We could hardly see anything. Thankfully we didn't drive to far along the coast that day. The next day was beautiful, warm and completely clear. We saw beautiful coastline, and also did a detour inland and did a tree top walk in the Beechforest. We saw the gorgeous famous Twelve Apostles, limestone pillars left standing when the coast around them has been eroded away.
We camped in Port Fairy that night.
The next day we drove into South Australia. We had these expectations that it would be so nice and hot in this state. What a disappointment! It has been so cool, quite cloudy and windy and even periods of rain. The whole week we have been here. Even the locals are saying it is a very unusual cold snap!
We're very glad we have each other to snuggle up to in the tent!
We saw Coorong National Park along the South eastern part, then we went to Victor Harbor on the Fleurieu Peninsula. It was a beautiful area with great scenery but again so windy and cloudy that we mainly just drove around it. Then we headed into Adelaide for 2 days. It was cloudy with minor sun and the city was great to drive around in. Compared to the other 3 main cities of Australia we have been in, Adelaide was definitely the best road wise. Wide multi-lane streets and very simple road grid. We went to the Migration museum which was very interesting and did a bit of shopping. We also went to a small Baptist church in the morning, very sweet people.
The last 2 days we have been in the Clare Valley. We have enjoyed the lovely famous Barossa Valley, finding we enjoyed the Peter Lehmann wines the best. Then today we had a super long walk, about 17 kms along the Clare valley wineries. We really loved the Sevenhills vineyard which is actually run by Catholic Jesuits. It's a super old winery over 160 years old. Originally created for altar wines, they later expanded to make great table and fortified wines. They had a beautiful church, an old crypt and a lovely ancient cellar. At least the weather was nice and warmer this afternoon.
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