Adelaide Central Market

Okay, so I’ve made a bit of a quantum leap from day #2 to day #8! Hey it’s hard keeping up when there is so much or so little going on, suffice it so say we are in Adelaide. There was one activity high on our list of things to do in Adelaide and that was a tour of the Adelaide Central Market.

Mark Gleeson our market tour guide

The 140 year old Adelaide Central Market, is located in the heart of the Central Business District and some say it is the epicenter of Food, Culture and Lifestyle in South Australia. It is the largest fresh produce market in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 80 specialist Stalls and the most visited tourist destination in South Australia with over 1.3 million visitors per month.

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Yass to Hay

So it's up bright and early and our first day or re-packing up the car, so it takes us forever. We finally check out 10am. The Colonial Lodge staff were great, the rooms clean and tastefully decorated but Kelly found it a bit noisy being so near the road with lots of trucks rumbling by and a very noisy compressor, perhaps on the in-room fridge, going all night. I slept fine :-)

Weather vane on top of the Colonial Lodge

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Sydney to Yass

Kelly and I are off to Adelaide to spend Xmas & New Year with my mother. Unfortunately mum's not too good at the moment and not really able to travel so we are off to visit. We love the wide open plains of Australia and look forward to the three day drive from Sydney to Adelaide.

This time we are going via Yass, Hay and Loxton arriving in Adelaide on the 17th.

Our plan today was to leave by lunchtime. It just goes to show that no matter how many times we go away we are either scrambling to make a plane or else futzing around trying to get everything done in the last minute or two. In our case hours.

Our goal today is to make it to Yass before nightfall, that’s a distance of 283 km from Sydney and for the beginning part it’s mostly freeway from our house to well outside of the city.

It got later and later until finally we were ready to drop off the furkids. Usually they go to kitty camp at Hanrob but the local vet, just down the road, has opened their own camp and the kids are going there. It’s great because they have all the medical history for Rupert and Peanut and they know them.
Here they are again, not looking too happy with their lot

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Kokas, McClure Gulf, West Papua Province

Teaching the kids of Kokas to do the “live long and prosper” hand sign

Map of the region showing our heading - Google map link

We have been sailing all night and at one point had reached the western most point in our journey along the coast of the island of New Guinea. We are on course for McClure Gulf and the village of Kokas in Fak Fak province.

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