The Miner's Cottage
Cockatoo Valley, Adelaide
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The Miner's Cottage Adelaide

Cockatoo Valley Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Wine, wine, wine and then some more wine!

A travel blog entry by jennystravels

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... biodiveristy gallery.

For our last day in Adelaide we decided to book ourselves onto the Taste the Barossa wine tour. We were picked up at 9am at the hostel then we had an hour drive over to the Barossa Valley. We firstly made a stop at The Whispering Wall - this isn't the most picturesque area as it is the retaining wall of the Barossa Reservoir but with its unique acoustic effects it is a big visitor attraction - words that are whispered at one side of ...

Looks like a CD, sounds like a CD, but....

A travel blog entry by sarah-and-perry

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Warning family members: this entry is very work-related. See next entry for a run down on our three day weekend in the Flinders Ranges (we saw many reptiles and a massive scorpian!).


Last week I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Rebecca Turner, a wetland specialist for the South Australia Murray-Darling Natural Resource Management Board (SA MDB NRM). The SA MDB NRM Board (I need an acronym ...

Went to see friends

A travel blog entry by gordoncollis1

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... we stumbled across a road that took us close to civilization and we stopped to look around.
1530 hours (3:30 pm) Back to Modbury Hilton to put on a roast for dinner. Lisa had to pick up kids and Sandra, Gordon and Grahme had drinks while preparing the evening meal. Gordon was the flavour of the day with the 4 kids and they played and pulled him around like a huge raggy doll. The cuddled Gordon and danced for him and generally showed off. They were having a ball.
The ...

Tours? Tours!

A travel blog entry by gg-mcq

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... to a new city, this four hour adventure in Sydney was worth every penny. Tour #2: The Blue Mountains. Think about a fog thick as split pea soup, and that was the weather that surrounded us during a bus tour of the Blue Mountains. They are so named because the eucalyptus trees emit a natural gas that paints the area's forests greenish-bluish. However, having paid for this prior to our departure, we immediately realized that these dollars were not ...

Day 3 at sea

A travel blog entry by megawat

A more peaceful day with the only organized activity was the iPod/iPhone/iPad session. We had breakfast in bed of fruit, toast and pastry along with coffee, a great way to go on board QM 2. It was around 10:15 by the time we had done our 3 laps and decided to have the next round of sustenance! Spectacular smoked salmon, pork pate ...