South of Adelaide
It always helps when you are travelling if you some vague idea of where you are going. A second good option in anywhere foreign, is to acquire a relatively good map. We knew today that we wanted to  go to McClaren Vale, to see yet another wine producing region. We really like looking at vines.
However, whilst we did have a vague idea of where it was in relation to Adelaide, the map we had was not good.
We started out on the right road, but lost it altogether just after Brighton and Hove in what Rosemarie christened the Hackett Bay Consolation Park, apparently conservation is a difficult  word to get your tongue around. The result was that we spent a very happy half hour circling various suburbs of Adelaide. We did see some very nice houses in some obviously rich suburbs, but quite where they were I couldn't tell you.
Eventually, after a twist of fate, we ended up on the right, road and went to Aldige Beach and Silver Sands which were lovely,we then made our way to Cape Jervis and watched the ferry from Kangaroo island dock and load and unload. We really do know how to enjoy ourselves. The area south of Adelaide is very like Dorset and travelling from  the Cape to Victor Harbour we passed 6 cars in thirty minutes over a thirty mile drive. The bay at Victor Harbour sparkled like a postcard picture and we drove to the top of The Bluff to get a view of the bay.
We drove back through the wine region and forgot that supermarkets in Australia shut at 5.00pm, which is either very civilised or very annoying, as you are standing outside at 5.04pm. As we need supplies for breakfast it was the latter. The issue was solved by finding a convenience store in Glenelg when we got back to our hotel.
We filled up our car with diesel which was rather a lot, costing about £105 but then we had done over a 1000 kilometres other last trip so we can't really complain. It is rather frightening to see over a hundred litres go into the tank.
We had decided  to get fish and chips for tea but as it was raining we were forced into a restaurant called Ambient where we had a really good meal.definitely slightly more up market than fish and chips  out of the paper sat on a bench in the town square.
Back to the mundanities of packing before moving onto Sydney tomorrow.