We have been heading south during the Christmas Holidays, exploring the area between Adelaide and the Victoria border.
It is very rich agricultural land in this region with small (even tiny) village communities and individual businesses. These photos are at the Prospect Hill museum which opens on Sundays for a few hours, staffed by local people who are delighted to take you round and tell you more about their area. This chap (he never did tell us his name although we asked a couple of times) was an excellent guide to pioneer life. Outside the museum was a Flag Tree - when the ships came into harbour in Adelaide a flag would be sent up which was repeated up the valleys so that the local people knew to come into town to collect their mail, parcels and visitors.
There are many vineyards that we have also been exploring (it's a hard life) plus we went to the caves at Naracoorte which are an almost complete fossil record of the past 500,000 years. If you thought the current Australian wildlife was strange, you should see the ancient man-height animals that existed then.
We have also had some lovely sunsets and ... an earthquake, or rather tremor of 2.6 which was experienced as a large bang which puzzled us until we saw the news. Otherwise all well although I have managed to kill my camera so this is why I am a little short on pictures on this posting. However, brought a new one yesterday so normal service etc.
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