Today started in the Wadlata Outback Centre, in the middle of Port Augusta. As well as being Port Augusta’s main information centre, it also has an incredible Tunnel of Time exhibition. From the outside, you really don’t think it would be so long and informative, but as you enter, you’re taken right back to the formation of earth at the time of the supercontinents. Then, with a general focus on the outback, we’re taken on a really interactive journey from…

We’re currently in the lands of the Barngarla people – the traditional owners of the areas around what’s now known as Port Lincoln, Whyalla and Port Augusta (known as Goordnada to the Barngarla people, where we are tonight). We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Barngarla elders past, present and emerging. We left behind Adelaide today and started the drive north up beside the Spencer Gulf, and across the top of the Yorke Peninsula. It was a slower start…

We adventured into Adelaide City today, primarily to visit Adelaide Oval! The day started with a walk down to Glenelg Jetty and the start of the tram line – about a 25 minute walk from our place. But we headed out to the Patawalonga River and walked along there to get into the centre of Glenelg, including past the beautiful marina. The tram leaves every 10 minutes from Glenelg heading into the city, so we didn’t have to wait long…

We’ve been on the road for a month! We are pretty much one-third of the way through this amazing adventure, and it’s crazy to realise there are still so many more incredible things to come – all of the NT, Central Qld, Great Barrier Reef… The day started over at Morialta Conservation Park to the west of Adelaide. I’ve noticed when I’ve been looking on maps that there’s quite a few of these huge conservation parks on the west side…

It was an adventure up into the northern part of the Adelaide Hills today. On the way, we wanted to swing by another big thing for the kids to tick off: the Big Scotsman! It’s not really an official big thing – it’s just attached to the side of a motel. But it was still fun to find and get a photo with from the other side of the road. We headed up toward Birdwood – the first stop of…

Back on the mainland today, and we’ve arrived in Glenelg – our favourite part of Adelaide to stay in. This land we’re sleeping on tonight, the lands throughout what we now know as Adelaide, and as far north as Port Wakefield, is the land of the Kaurna people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. We headed out from Kingscote back across to Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island this morning – we had a 10:30 ferry to catch! Thankfully, it…

This morning we headed back toward the south side of the Island, to Seal Bay. It’s home to a colony of Australian Sea Lions – they estimate there are about 1000 Sea Lions in the colony at Seal Bay. But there are perhaps only 12,000 Australian Sea Lions left, making them critically endangered. We arrived with a bit of time before our tour, so we took a walk along the path up to a lookout that looked over the beach…

The rain fell pretty hard this morning. Thankfully, plan A for the day involved being indoors – at least for the morning. We enjoyed a bit of a slow start to the day (Debbie and I didn’t even get out of bed til 8am – unheard of!) and after a bit of breakfast and the kids playing a few different card games, we headed out to Island Beehive. So, the only bee on KI is the Liguarian honey bee. And,…

We may be up against a bit of rain in the next few days here on KI. But today was looking pretty good – so we did a bit of a swap of activities. This morning, we headed out to Little Sahara! Little Sahara is an adventure centre based at some incredible sand dunes on the south side of Kangaroo Island. They run quite a few different tours around the dunes and the huge heritage listed property – but we…

We’ve arrived on the beautiful Kangaroo Island for a few days! The people of the Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Barngalla nations knew this island as Karta Pintingga. It’s believed they inhabited this island some 16,000 years ago, before rising sea levels cut the island off from the mainland. We pay our respects to the elders of the Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Barngalla people, especially acknowledging their ancestors. We headed off from Victor Harbor about 8am this morning, needing to get…