Adelaide Cup weekend

Choir of Man

We went on a bit of a trip this weekend. It started off with us attending the Adelaide Fringe and seeing the Choir of Man show with staff from Stradbroke School.

The Garden of Unearthly Delights

The Fringe is an ongoing festival with all kinds of artistic shows, comedians, musicians, buskers and great food.

Art on the sides of silos

Check out the map below to see our trip. We drove through a number of small South Australian towns on our way and I was amazed by how much it reminded me of parts of Alberta.

Marsupial lion

We started off by going to the Naracoorte caves and got there in time to see Victoria cave, which had the fossils of the marsupial lion.

We ended up camping in a bush bell tent in Coonawara which was about 20 minutes south of Naracoorte. The setup was very nice and we had a vineyard right next door and sampled some of their wine.

We headed over to Robe the next day and saw some extraordinary limestone cliffs and amazing beaches. There were also what looked like lava rocks on the beach.

We walked down the pathway and made our way down to a secluded area where the boys climbed on the rocks and found shells and crab exoskeletons everywhere.

We noticed there was an amazing looking semi-circle beach on the other side of the car park so we walked over there next. This was probably the best beach we saw and the kids had fun on the rocks their mother's dismay. I enjoyed all of the pools around the rocks and how white the sand was. If only it was a bit warmer and not as windy we would have enjoyed it more. I guess when summer comes around again we will be coming down here again before we leave.

Robe has an obelisk on a big cliff jutting out into the ocean so we had to go for a closer look.

The next day we drove to Kingston and found the Big Lobster, unfortunately the restaurant is for sale. Looks like it would be a great business opportunity! (Comes with giant lobster)

After that, we went to the biggest, beach ever just north of Kingston. It was very windy so we couldn't eat our lunch here as planned. We ended up just eating in the car park and after taking some pictures.

On our way home we stopped in Meningie to take a bathroom break and play at the park. We then headed just a few kilometres north and stopped at Meningie's pink lake. It is probably better from an aerial perspective as it was a bit disappointing.

Our trip this weekend