The weather was overcast and threatening rain this morning, but we decided to venture into Adelaide on the bus. Our landlord advised us to take the O-Bahn rather than the city bus up on A-10. The O-Bahn terminal is about 1 km down the path through a lovely park. The O-Bahn is an innovative way for buses to travel. It consists of a paved rail line that goes through mostly undeveloped land and allows the buses to go at high speed into the city from the surrounding suburbs. The buses do not ride on the rails, but rather move under their own power on paved tracks that are bound on the sides by iron rails. The rails constrain the bus’ wheels so that the driver can only control the speed of the bus, but not its direction. The time it takes to get to town from Klemzig (the terminal closest to our campground) was only ten minutes, whereas it would have taken about a half hour along the A10 highway.

Adelaide is truly a charming city. It is very well laid out with wide, clean streets and lots of old buildings mixed in with modern glass and steel buildings. It is very easy to find your way around the city. Our first stop was the public market (one of my favorite places as they always bring back fond memories). Like so many public markets, this one is a kaleidoscope of humanity with every race, ethnicity, dress, and economic class there in abundance. The smells from all the different kinds of foods are absolutely wonderful and make you want to eat all of it.

After exploring the market, we worked our way past St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, Victoria Square, the old post office, the parliament buildings and many other interesting buildings to the South Australia Museum. With the world’s greatest museum in our own back yard, we look for things that are unique to the area and the SA Museum has a wonderful exhibit on the history of the aborigines. The aborigines are believed to be of African descent rather than Asian, and I find it truly a mystery how they could have migrated from Africa all the way to Australia. It is currently believed that they migrated to Australia from New Guinea during the last ice age when there was a land bridge connecting the two. But then how and when did they get to New Guinea?

We also spent some time in the Immigration Museum which is near the SA Museum. As you go through the Immigration Museum you realize the hardships that people went through to emigrate to Australia. In the early days, it took about 90 days to get here from England in horrible conditions (and we complain about 20 hours to get here from the States). Many of the immigrants died in passage. And then there were the asylums where they placed the indigent, many of whom were widows with children and orphaned children. It’s really depressing to think that people had to live through such conditions.
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We left the museums and found the M44 bus right across the street which would take us back “home” along the O-Bahn. We hiked back through the park to our campground and reached our cabin about 5:30. By that time we were starved so we had “happy hour”: wonderful wine from a local winery, cheese and crackers. It was also laundry day, so following happy hour Peggy did the laundry while I got things ready for dinner. After dinner, it was story time and then bed time after a big, wonderful day.

Cheers,
Wayne & Peggy