Barossa and Adelaide Hills
And here what we have done on our second day with the rented car…
Today was Verena’s driving day. As she loves driving so much 😉 we started on a really nice and small serpentine road through the Adelaide Hills and along the river Torrens. We first stopped at a little car park at the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir to have a look at it. As we looked around we found our first Koala hanging around in the tree!
A Koala at the River Torrens
We then drove further to the Para Wirra Recreation Park. Just 2 minutes in there we had to stop because of 2 Emus walking across the street … We had a nice little walk to The Knob Lookout in that park before we headed to the Whispering Wall at the Barossa Reservoir. The wall is a 140 meters long dam, nothing special, but if one person says something on one end, the other person can hear it loud and clear on the other side.
Whispering Wall
From there we had a nice drive through the Barossa, the second very famous wine area around Adelaide. We had a look at lots of nice little villages/towns such as Gawler, Lyndoch or Tanunda. We spent a couple of minutes in the sculpture park at Mengler Hill (from there we had a really good view onto the Barossa). On our way back to Adelaide we drove through the Eden Valley and past the Herbig Family Tree, a nearly hollow tree which once was home for a whole family. We also stopped at the toy factory and their Big Rocking Horse in Gumeracha. The Big Rocking Horse is a “Schaukelpferd” which is nearly 13m high!
The Big Rocking Horse
After this we made our way through Hahndorf, the ‘German Village’, to the Mount Lofty Summit. From there you have a really good view over Adelaide and its suburbs. After sunset we spend a few more minutes up there to see Adelaide with its amazing lights by night. But it was only 7°C so that we were happy to get back in the car and drive home!
Adelaide from Mt Lofty
Cheers,
Verena & Johannes