Adelaide to Black Point

Decided to take the ferry back to the mainland and found some nice spots on the road from Cape Jervis to Adelaide.

We arrived in Adelaide in time to walk around the Botanic Gardens and the SA Wine Centre...but decided not to spend $100 for 25ml of Grange!!

The next day we wandered around Adelaide, taking in the art gallery and museum and a trip to the Mac shop where Russ replaced his malfunctioning iPhone with a new phone.

We left for the Barossa via Houghton in the scenic Adelaide Hills and tasted wines at Kellermeister. We marvelled at their fabulous multi award winning shiraz and their famous chocolate liquer and left a bit poorer! At Lou Miranda we tasted more lovely fortified wines and had a good lunch (very rich gorgonzola sauce on gnocchi).  After lots of chats and laughs with Steve and Helen at Tanunda Caravan Park, we decided to spend the next day together. The highlights were wandering around the magestic italianate Seppeltsfield winery, cafe and restaurant and the tasting extravaganza. Maggie Beer’s very a impressive produce shop where every detail was attended to in order to present a homey, rustic but perfectly honed tasting and retail centre. Lunch at 1918 restaurant in Tanunda was very good. Russ loved his roasted pork belly and I loved the lamb with tasty light black pudding you'd think that was a contradiction!). A good walk to Bethany helped deal with the very delicious lunch.

On our way out of the Barossa, we visited Angaston, intending to taste cheese at the award winning cheese shop but were only able to taste 3 cheeses. We made up for that disappointment with a magnificent vanilla slice and quiche Lorraine at a café in the main street, The Gully Garden had delicious dried fruit just a few kilometres out of town.

After Driving into every single town on the east coast of the Yorke Peninsula, we were thrilled with out decision to stay at a small camp ground overlooking the long beach at Black Point. We were thrilled to get our Hobie blow up kayaks out for their first water of the trip. We quickly caught 3 nice sized squid the first morning. Steve and Helen decided to join us for a couple of days after hearing about the good fishing. Steve, a very experienced and successful restauranteur said that Russ's squid stuffed with green prawns (thanks Helen), camembert and garlic would have cost $100 in a good restaurant. Yeh Russ!! Another camper told us how to cook the razor fish we had collected and their scallop like flavour was stunning, even though they were a bit tough - maybe we overcooked them. We were amazed that there were so many razor fish in the bay, just waiting to be collected and enjoyed - what a Garden of Eden it is here!  We heard that in season, locals take a rake into the shallow water and rake up good sized crabs - unbelievable!

 Cooking razor fish

We didn't work out what the wooden structure was for!

A manta ray had come in for the fish cleaning

The 50 or so structures are all right on the beach at Black Point and about 10% are larger new houses and the rest are small fishing shacks. One very small one was on the market for $650k and we could see why - its a stunning place with all the ingredients for a magical summer holiday.

View from our camp site.

Just around the point hundreds of birds fed at low tide - oyster catchers, crested terns, cormorants, pelicans, dotterells and plovers.

We were overjoyed that Steve rated our tasty sausage pasta so well. All visitors will now get that meal.