April 2018
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Apr 8 McLaren Vale, Glenelg, Adelaide
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McLaren Vale wine, lunch and Glenelg beach walk with Doull’s, Adelaide evening. We caffeinate, throw laundry into the hotel’s machine, arrange for maids to dry it and put it in our room, and make tracks for vineyards in McLaren Vale,… Continue reading
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Apr 7 Hahndorf in Adelaide Hills
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Wine tasting in Adelaide Hills. Life begins twice a day: when you get up and when you have your first cocktail. After a morning and early afternoon doing administrative chores related to “where are wee staying next, how will we… Continue reading
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Apr 6 Port Fairy to Hahndorf
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Long drive from Port Fairy to the Adelaide Hills with Coonawarra wine tasting on the way. We get a very late start after administrative chores and shopping for sandwiches to take on the road, so we’re on the road to… Continue reading
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Apr 5 Port Campbell to Port Fairy
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Early visit to 12 Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge for morning views, walk on beach where shipwreck survivors landed, sleep in charming Port Fairy. We wake early and bomb back east on B100 to see Loch Ard’s spectacular rocks in… Continue reading
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Apr 4 Otway Lightstation to Port Campbell
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Walk around Cape Otway light station, hike Maits Rest park and Melba Gully park for old forests, see sunset at 12 Apostles. We wake and David walks into the bush and photographs his second wallaby (our iPad ewill not accept… Continue reading
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Apr 3 Lorne to Cape Otway Lightstation
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Visit parks and sleep at a lightstation. The Great Ocean Road. Yes it is. Yes, it really is. We happily leave the Grand Pacific Hotel and drive on a road that winds gently toward Erskine Falls in the… Continue reading
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Apr 2 Launceston to Lorne
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We wake earlier than we would like even though Daylight Savings has ended and we’ve had two days with an extra hour. (We are just tickled to realize all our friends in the States have LOST an hour of sleep.)… Continue reading
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Apr 1 Launceston
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Exploring Launceston. Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Cynthia, happy birthday to you. I love being married to a fifty-year old who looks forty. Cynthia and I walk down the hill, past the old Catholic… Continue reading