Got up with the sun, which i continued to do every day on the tour! its pretty amazing waking up to sky not ceiling! we packed up the stuff and had some brekky then drove over to Wilpena Pound. We walked to a couple of lookouts, its incredible! the aboriginal story goes that the people were having a big ceremony when two giant serpents came and ate all the people, but were then too full to move so they settled head to tail and formed the walls of the pound! We g...

Up at 5:30am, gathered my things and said goodbye, people got up at stupid o'clock just to say goodbye to me!!! aaaaw!! Me and Chad (lad from my hostel room also on the tour) got picked up by the toyota landcruiser that will be our base for the next 10 days, and headed off to pick up the rest of the group. The group consists of Ben the guide and driver, Joe, the trainee guide, then Fran and Louise, two gals from Yorkshire, David (pom), Nienke (dutch), Florie...

Got up at a reasonable time today and just kinda wandered aimlessly around the hostel swapping email addresses and phone numbers with everyone....i dont want to leave this place!! Met up with Jess, a friend of mine that i met in austria on the forum, who lives in adelaide! we went to Glenelg beach for a wander and a drink, then headed down to Norwood for the food and wine festival. Its really cool, they shut off a whole load of streets for it and have hundreds o...

Everyone was very quiet this morning....i wonder why! all nursing major hangovers except me haha!!! the funniest thing happened, lee woke up and couldnt find his jeans anywhere, and was worried because his wallet and phone were in the pocket. we all searched the room and couldnt find them anywhere. he was convinced that jordan, a guy in our room who left early for kangaroo island, had mistakenly picked them up with his stuff. he then went for a cigarette, and fou...

Me and Tina were early risers today, we decided to indulge on the Groovy Grape winetasting tour in the Barossa Valley! got the bus at 8am....argh! our day was very fun....but im telling you, someone on that bus was jinxed, the day was like one of the Final Destination films, where disaster follows one person!! Disaster No 1: we run over something and get ourselves a flat tyre on the way to the first winery, which sets us back about 30 minutes, as at first the ...