Today started with some love showering over Debbie for Mothers’ Day. At home, we love heading out for breakfast on or around Mothers’ Day, and so I wanted to make sure we were still able to do that here. We headed out to a lovely cafe/bar just behind our accomodation called the Big Winch 360. It’s perched up on a hill in Coober Pedy, and so we ate our breakfast overlooking the town – sure, it’s just a town of…

We’re now in the lands of the Antakirinja people, the traditional owners of the vast, arid areas that surround Coober Pedy. We acknowledge their continuing ownership and connection to this land, and acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. We’re also now underground! I’m sure there’s plenty of lovely places to stay in Coober Pedy – but the minute we decided that this would be a stop on our journey, it was always going to be at an underground motel!…

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…