Return to Adelaide

 Return to Adelaide  

We reached the ferry terminal just as it was arriving from the mainland.

We had some time to wander along the beach. Despite being a harbour, the sand was clean and the water clear enough to see fish swimming.

We passed through the McLaren Vale wine growing region. We passed through Myponga with its little church and a big reservoir. Adelaide gets some of its drinking water from the Murray River and this is a storage reservoir. There is an oportunity to go kayaking on the rsservoir and there is a brewery on the edge of the lake.

We also passed the construction site of the largest buddist temple in the southern hemisphere. Construction was delayed by COVID but it should be cimpleted in a couple of years time.

We drove through Goodwood, home to the Capri Theatre to reach the Parklands and our hotel in the city centre. 

The city was planned by Colonel Light and based on a grid pattern. The whole centre measures one mile square. He has a square named after him. The square mile is surrounded by parklands. There are several old houses still standing in the centre.

Part of the university.

The masonic hall.

Another part of the univsity. It is celebtrating its 150th anniversary. 

The second oldest church in the city. The oldest dates from 1838 just further along the road. 

One of the benefactors of the university, Sir Thomas Elder.

Another university building.

The former police barracks, stables and prison cells.

The immigration museum. Each group have commissioned a plaque to record when they arrived and the reason for fleeing, often religious persecution, discrimination or pwesecution.

A statue of an immigrant family.

Part of the workhouse.

Individuals have sponsored individual bricks placed in the courtyard recording their name, origin and date of arrival. 

The war memorial for all South Australians who fell in the First World War.