Martindale Hall Mintaro
Manoora Road Mintaro, South Australia, 5415, Australia
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A long awaited return to the Clare Valley....
... is a beautifully restored general store, now being run as a working Café & Wine Bar, they also have four ensuite accomodation options, see http://www.cygnetsatauburn.com.au/clare -valley-bed-and-breakfast.html for more info... On arrival, we were set up in one of the Stable Suites, which are very private and comfortable, with a big comfy bed, large spa bath and cosy wood heater, plus plenty of parking and a pleasant garden setting. ...
Interesting Burra
Last night in Melrose, the rain started around 9 o'clock and didn't stop all night and into the morning. So plenty of water in that little creek now!
So packed up and headed down to Burra. Little towns or villages of Laura, Gladstone, Spalding are some of the oldest towns in South Australia. Countryside is ...
Thats alot of old fossils
After a quick trip back to one winery to pick up a couple of bottles (we have promised not to drink them til we get home!!) we headed out to Burra - the home of Australia's biggest mega fauna discovery.
The council offices had a little display on the mega fauna discovery - some diprotodon fossils and other large marsupial bones all found not that long ago ...
A "Gourmet week end" in Clare
... es allemal und zwar schnell, und...billig billig billig.
Nach dieser koestlichen Mahlzeit, meldet sich die Muedigkeit und da es auch zunehmend kaelter wird, machen wir uns auf die Suche nach einem gemuetlichen Schlafplatz und verkriechen uns mit unseren Buechern im Zelt.
Am naechsten Morgen stehen wir voller Erwartung auf. Stefanie hatte uns informiert, dass dieses Wochenende in Calre eine Art Gourmet Festival stattfindet. Wir entern also das Staetdchen voll ...
Burra and Red Banks Conservation Park
Today we drive to Burra, visit the info centre and grocery store before heading out to Red Banks Conservation Park where we camp for the next couple of days. During our time here we do some walks in the Conservation Park, looking at the red creek banks where the park derives its name. We also see a lot of erosion which we think may be how the first of the many fossil remains in the area have come to light. The soil ...


