After work
Beside the fact, that we haven’t enjoyed the good weather the last two days and stayed at work from 7:30 in the morning till 5:30 in the afternoon, we left at 3:00 pm today. It was 31°C! So we decided to buy pizzas and eat them in one of the western park lanes on our way back home.
Look:
Johannes in the park lanes
Tomorrow it will be 36°C… finally the spring is here :).
Kangaroo Island
Hello, hello 🙂
I'm back ... Saturday and Sunday on Kangaroo Island have been great!
I got up at around 5 am to be collected at the university later. At first we were only 3 people that were taken down to Kangaroo Island. First thing we did there was visiting a nice beach and Propect Hill (well, it's been renamed to Mount Thifty or sth. as Prospect is a rather bad precinct of Adelaide). Kind of sounds like nothing, but by then it was already lunch time. That's where we caught up to the guys from the 3-day tour with their guide with our's heading back to the mainland.
I'll not bother you with all the details, but just the highlights. We saw seals (close, i.e. about 20m), New Zealand sea lions (somewhat further away in their cave), penguins (very close, i.e. about 1m). Then there were the Remarkable Rocks and lots of other stuff to see 🙂
Lets's get some impressions of it now:
New Zealand Fur-Seals on Kangaroo Island
One of the Remarkable Rocks
Seals at Seal Bay
9 1/2 h
Hi guys,
Only to remind you, as you changes time this night and we did three weeks ago the time difference to Germany is + 9 ½ hours now!
See you
Verena
Verena alone in Adelaide
Hy everybody,
Now Johannes is away for his two days Kangaroo Island Tour (which I did last year) and I am alone for the first time in more than two month 🙂 As the shops don’t open until 11 I will first do a little bit for my thesis now and then go shopping!
See you
Verena
At the beach
Hello hello 🙂
We've got a nice picture for you ... We went to Glenelg (a suburb of Adelaide) where we wanted to lie in the sun and swim a little. Well, we did lie in the sun (it's been around 30°C today); only the water was freezing cold, so we swam only shortly.
The two of us at Glenelg Beach
See ya ...
Morialta Conservation Park
G'day everybody ...
After a lazy day yesterday we headed to Morialta Conservation Park today. It's funny how many people go there on the weekends. Anyway we got nice weather with pure sunshine and went for a little bit of hiking. On our little trip we had some nice animal encounters 😉
A Koala at Morialta
One thing about the Koala, though. Usually they are rather brownish. This one is too (mainly its back), but not as much as the others.
A Kookaburra at Morialta
… as well as Verena …
... who seems a little cold ... Long live the hot chocolate!
Verena at the office
Lazy Sunday
Hi guys,
Bicentennial Conservatory & Rose Garden
This morning we decided to have a lazy Sunday and go to the Botanic Gardens and the Morialta Conservation Park. So we took part in a guided Botanic Gardens tour from 10:30 to 12:00. The guide explained the different plants in the gardens, where they are from, what is special about them, … It was very interesting! We then decided not to go to Morialta as the weather was warm (about 26°C), but clouds increased and thunderstorms where announced. Instead we stayed longer in the gardens and had a walk through the beautiful rose garden that is in flower at the moment and the Bicentennial Conservatory – a tropical rainforest house.
A Little Pied Cormorant
Then the weather got better again so that we enjoyed it lying in the grass and walking along the North Terrace. Back at home we were glad that we didn’t go to the Morialta as it started to rain 🙁 . We will now enjoy a nice evening and hope that you will also have a nice Sunday!
See you,
Verena & Johannes
Saturday BBQ
Hello again,
Today we've been to Paul and Paula's house (the professors we are working with). It's up in the hills, i.e. about 19 km from the city. That would have been a long drive up the hills with our bikes. But the friend you learned of from the last post (Friday) took us with him by car. We only had to go to his place first.
Paul and Paula have a nice, remote house within a little valley that they share with a few others. We enjoyed a very nice lunch with them and talked a lot afterwards 🙂 Our mousse au chocolat seemed to be welcomed even though we'd been struggeling to make it the day before. It turns out you should never try to whip cream that's not cold enough as about nothing will happen 🙁
See you,
Johannes and Verena
Friday night
Hey everyone,
Friday night we were invited to a friend's house for a nice evening. He's living at Torrens Park about 8 km south of our place. It's been very funny and he and his fiance prepared little snacks for us as well as the others who were invited.
The only downside was the part of getting there. Of the 8 km about 4 km steadily go up a little with bigger inclines at the end. That's been really exhausting ... You kind of feel like being glued to the ground sometimes.
Anyway, it was nice, all together.
Cheers,
Johannes and Verena