Adelaide (2)

Saturday 17th January

Not sure what we did during daytime hours but in the early evening we paid a quick trip over to Aldgate ro see how the site for the new house was coming on (WhatsApp has the photos).

Sunday 18th January

Our first, and so far only, proper walk. The Heysen Trail is a long distance - 1,200 kms (750 miles) - trail in South Australia and part of it passes through Bridgewater - right behind our little cottage, in fact. We took some advice from Kelly on what we could do and she recommended a loop up the Fire Trail that should take us approximately an hour or so.

The first bit is easy - flat, wide and well-defined - barring the odd termite mound:

We then turned off the main trail and went up the Fire Trail which involved a bit of elevation. We reached what we thought was the high point where, to complete the loop back to the main trail the name changed to Ridge Trail. That's when it started to get a little tricky. The path narrowed and we continued to climb. We passed a sign for a turn-off to the summit of Mount George, just 150 metres away, but carried on the Ridge Trail. It got pretty rocky and given the problems I was still having with my knee, post-op, and Jo with her COPD, we struggled a bit. When we eventually came to the end of the ridge and started the downward loop it got even more tricky and progress was slow.

I'm happy to report that we did eventually make it back down to ground level without any mishaps:

The moving part of our walk took us an hour and three quarters but the total elapsed time was 3 hours - there were frequent stops on the way. At the end of our walk the trail passed below the rear of our cottage - a view we hadn't seen before:

In the afternoon, Kelly drove all of us - bar Chris who was still working on clearing the Old Noarlunga house prior to it going on the market - over to Grunthal (https://grunthal.com.au/) - formerly Grumpy's but now transformed.

Monday 19th January

We all headed over to Old Noarlunga. While Miller was meeting with an old school pal, Jo and I took Asher for a short drive along the coast to revisit some of the places we used to go to - Port Noarlunga, Christie's Beach and beyond:

Of course, we had to bribe Asher with a visit to Beck's Bakehouse for ice cream.