The visitor

There was a big commotion in our garden this morning. Cocky-boy sounded the alarm. When I looked out the door, it became obvious: Cocky-girl had a nosy visitor! Another, wild, sulphur crested cockatoo had spotted her and checked her out! It was awesome to see this in front of our door. However, I feel sad for her because she will never have a companion...

I had a hair cut :-)

Later we drove to Hahndorf.

Frequent blog readers will understand the sole purpose of our Hahndorf visits ;-)

Driving back towards town through the Adelaide Hills. Big sky.

We also drove to Henley beach.

The wind was strong, it was cold too but always such a pleasure to be there.

The citrine

The doves scouting the bucket with bird food.

Late morning we drove to Hahndorf. We were on a mission.

A chocolate mission that is.

This cutie came driving past.

And we saw grass sharks!

Nicole bought me a beautiful stone! It's citrine and I am very happy with it.

It was grey but excellent weather to walk around.

In the evening we went to Karin and Gavin. They invited us for a BBQ. Here I am sitting with a friend of theirs, Sue. It was nice meeting her.

Masterchef Gavin operating the barbie.

And yes, my little blog friends. Take note! In this picture, I am eating a king prawn. The 7th EVER IN MY WHOLE LIFE to be exact. I have made more food progress tonight. I am over my disliking of prawns! Well, as long as I don't have to peel them myself that is hehe.

Granite Island

We wanted to have a bit of a day out today so we did shopping first thing in the morning. Judging by the amount of trollies still outside it was not very busy. Lucky us!

Nicole was THRILLED being back at Woolworths ;-)

After dropping all our stuff of back home we drove to Victor harbour. But along the way we needed a toilet so we made an emergency stop in Hahndorf.

When going to Hahndorf, it's a SIN not to visit Chocolate @ No. 5.

They had mushrooms in their garden.

We parked out front of the Victor Harbour bowls club. They have THE best located greens I have EVER seen! To spend your old days like this is a DREAM! They were playing a team that had flown in from Canberra City.

After watching the bowls for a few minutes we proceeded to Granite Island. You can only get there by this long bridge.

Granite island is made of... granite. Lots of rocky granite.

Looking back towards Victor harbour.

You can also get there by horse tram.

Granite Island is an important place for aboriginals. An aboriginal face carved in a piece of granite decorates the entry to the island.

This is a little bronze of the penguins that live here. We didn't see any coz they go swimming at the crack of dawn. Good on them.

It's a beautiful island with lots of untouched nature.

Lovely views.

This tree had two cores. Must've been two trunks grown together.

Lots of years ago I sat at the exact same place :-)

More beautiful view.



Moss on a rock.

After the 1.5 hour walk we had a sit, a drink and I has cheez burger.

The gulls figured it right out. I don't make an effort to eat more than I really need nowadays so of course there was stuff left.

Sure enough, as soon as we were 3 metres away from the table they came right down.

A sign on our way off the island.

Coffee with Gianna

I picked up Nicole from her work at noon. We drove straight down to the charcoal chicken where you get really good, charcoal grilled chicken. It's delicious and very lean because it's grilled.

I waited in the car.

Awesome view.

In the afternoon we went to Hahndorf. The view was better there.

We had coffee and cake with Gianna. It was nice to be out with her again and we had a nice time. In this photo, Gianna is doing her best Anne Frank impersonation ;-)

We went to Chocolate @ No. 5.

Got milk?

We went to Hahndorf today for a little drive.

Naturally you end up at "Chocolate @ No. 5" then. Seriously good stuff.

Because of Anzac day all big supermarkets are closed (quite retarded if you ask me) so we had to go find some other place to buy milk. Yes, I'm out of milk. I could cry. Anyway, none of the halal supermarkets that actually *were* open had a decent enough dairy section to have milk. So we had to stop at a few until our car would really not start anymore. We called the RAA to bring us a new battery. After that we went too Cafe Cena for a bit (I had loads of veggies) and we went home.

We forgot to buy milk...

I sold my soul to the devil...

I slept well last night after that long day of work. Early afternoon we drove to Hahndorf.

We went through the Heysen tunnels

And we saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

Guess where we went?

This is a hint...

Think you know?

Going home we drove through the hills.

Nice views every where and lots of vineyards.

Due to the recent extreme hot weather, native trees shed their bark.

We stopped at a bus stop to enjoy the view.

Vineyard view.

Driving.

Coming from the hills you get a very nice view of Adelaide. You can see the city in the middle.

When we came home I took Mason for a walk.

He waits at the curb better than before. He has to wait until I say "OK".

We walked through a little park. All over town you see these public BBQs. This one was for free even. You hold a button for six second and it starts to heat up. I think it runs on gas.

We saw Caesar again.

Today I joined Facebook. It's all very confusing still. Don't worry, this blog will still be updated daily. For now I'm not planning on putting any photos on Facebook. It's mainly another way to stay in touch with people.