asĀ  mentioned last time instead of an amazing outback drive along the oodnadatta track the girls preferred a slightly less rustic detour – to adelaide.

that said a quick stroll through the adelaide cbd on friday afternoon left us with the impression that there was a fair bit of eccentricity about the place – maybe it was just the fact that the fringe festival was on. there was a lot of fringe going on.

nat had different plans anyway. the shallow sea near the adelaide suburb of glenelg is home to a few pods of dolphins and the owners of the ‘imagine’ offer enterprising tourists the opportunity to share the water with the dolphins.

mammal meets mammal.

the water was pretty chilly, though, and being dragged behind a boat waiting for the dolphins to join is not helping either.

in the end nat was pretty cold but excited to swim with these amazing creatures.

and then there was the opportunity to climb up really high on a metal structure. kris & i didn’t object, the harness looked sturdy enough.

nat takes a break up there.

it’s hard work and probably best not to look down.

other than that we really didn’t do all that much in adelaide. a bit of study, a bit of housekeeping,

i did a bit of home improvement. there is always something.

here is another photo from our trip back from the flinders ranges. the landscape left and right is breathtaking, all the way to adelaide. that makes sense given the geosyncline run all that way, and further on to kangaroo island.

a picture from quorn. so much history.

after a night in port augusta – where we didn’t take any photos because there was really not much to see – we drove down the east side of the eyre peninsula to port lincoln.

the landscape is mostly agricultural, not so much animals this time but crops. just south of port augusta is a range of hills with a remarkable flat line on top, as if someone cut them off with a ruler.

the salt bush looks much healthier here. i guess this is what the flinders must have looked like before the arrival of the sheep.

on the way we check if whyalla had been erased from the map as predicted by a former prime minister, tony ‘the mad monk’ abbot. whyalla is still here, luckily.

there are even dolphins next to the marina, here a mum with her baby. nat was very excited.

there is also a short but nice board walk through the mangroves in arno bay.

tonight we’ll stay in the tourist park in port lincoln. we arrived too late to be able to get to our next campsite, in memory cove in the lincoln national park. we managed to nab the last site there for 2 nights, another bush camp.

hopefully we can sleep tonight, the wind is threatening to blow away our camper.