This, the second blog from my trip in Australia in 1995, pretty much covers the second month I spent there.
I clearly remember that I wasnt very fond of Adelaide. I stayed only a very short time there and I saw very little. The only thing I saw in Adelaide that Ill mention here is South Australian Museum. There were two really cool exhibits there: one was the leg of a dinosaur and the other a really large meteorite. I think it might be the largest meteorite ever found in Australia.
Kangaroo Island is an island just off the coast to the south of Adelaide. I decided to take a tour there and that was a good decision since a tour is a good way to travel when there are a lot of things worth seeing in a small place.
=> Kelly Hill Cave: A limestone cave with the typical features any decent limestone cave has- stalactites, stalagmites and columns.
=> Remarkable Rocks: Strangely shaped boulders. Their shapes are so odd that they look more like manmade sculptures than naturally shaped rocks.
After leaving South Australia I came to Western Australia. The first place I stopped at there was the small mining town Norseman. I went there because I wanted to go on a tour of the gold mine. It is active gold mine and I thought it could be interesting to see it. My plan got a bit derailed when it utrned out that I was the only one in town that day who had signed up for the tour. They want to have a minimum of two people on the tour to run it so it was cancelled. Well, I got to see what a small mining town look like.
According to legend, the first gold nugget found in the town was found by a horse, not a human. The horse, named Norseman, was scratching the soil with its hoof and uncovered a gold nugget.
only thing I saw there that i feel is worth mentioning here in this blog entry is my visit to Fremantle Cemetery. Bon Scott, singer of the rock band AC/DC in the is buried there.
I ended up in Guilderton just by coincidence. When I came there they told me that the local river, Moore River, had an unusual feature. Across its mouth there was a sand barrier that prevented the water from reaching the ocean. The river ended in a lagoon. They told me that when it rains the river overflows and the sand gets washed away. But then the ocean rebuilds the sand barrier again and the lagoon is recreated. Ive never heard anything like that before.
Monkey Mia is best described as a tourist resort and on its beaches is where people spend most of their time. However, the big attraction there is the dolphins. The up to the beach and tourists are permitted to interact with them. To keep the dolphins safe the entire interaction thing is very regulated
A limestone cave with the typical features any decent limestone cave has - stalactites, stalagmites and columns.
and the dolphins know the rules. The dolphins know the rules very well. The tourists line up and the up only if he/she wants to interact. The dolphins up but they have actually been known by staying just out of reach to tease the tourists.
I went to Broome mainly because I wanted to visit Tunnel Creek National Park. That turned out to be impossible because rains had destroyed all the roads there. But since I was there I decided to take a tour to see some dinosaur tracks they had discovered there. It was a very small and simple tour and the guide was not good. He actually didnt seem to enjoy guiding people. But it was fun to see dinosaur tracks.
Between Broome and Darwin me and five others travelled with a campervan. We didnt have to pay rent for it, because the needed someone to drive it for them. Basically we did tem a favour by driving it and
I met this little friend on Kangaroo Island. It would be fitting if it actually is a Kangaroo, but it might also be a wallaby. To me they kinda look the same (hope I dont get too much hate mail from Aussies for saying that)
we also paid the fuel. This allowed us to make a few short stops on the way.
