Adelaide (4 nights)

The highlight of this stay in Adelaide was seeing so many koalas in the wild (not in a zoo or wildlife park).  We were camped next to Belair National Park in the Adelaide Hills and went for walks koala spotting, on one walk we found 13, some with babies!  

Spot the koala

the koala in the previous photo

Koala with a baby!!!!

Lorakeets in Belair National Park

We also visited the South Australia Museum in the city centre, we had been there at the start of the trip and asked the team at their info centre to help identify a spider we had photographed.  So Enzo took the opportunity to ask them about a dragon we had seen at Coffin Bay.  The chap looked at the photo and said it looks like a Ctenophorus decresii (Tawny dragon) and Enzo said “Yes that’s what I thought but it isn’t known to be in that area according to the field guide”, the chap pulls out his guide (the same one) and says “yes, you are right, let’s ring the states expert”.  So the expert listens to the details and concludes it is a Ctenophorus fionni (Peninsula dragon) but the colouring is different than usual and could he have a copy of the photo!

We checked out Port Adelaide and went for a trip down the river spotting dolphins and hearing about the various port activities.  Also went to Semapore Beach, great new playground there.

appartments on the waterfront at Port Adelaide