Glenelg weekend away

Sorry for letting the crickets loose on the blog again. Life gets busy.

The weekend before last I shot off to Adelaide after work on Friday. I ummed and aahed about going a day earlier than I needed to, but I needed and deserved a weekend away by myself god damn it!

I arrived in Adelaide in peak hour traffic and made my way to Glenelg with a shitload of help from mum's GPS. I would have been LOST without it, I have no clue where I'm going in Adelaide!

The motel I stayed in was on Broadway, a fab spot with a couple of pubs down the road, a good array of shops, cafes and bars and a couple of supermarkets a quick walk away. It suited me down to the ground. I parked my car in front of my room and that's where it stayed until I left on Sunday morning. 

I walked to Glenelg's shopping strip, Jetty Road on Saturday morning. I had a relaxing walk around the shops, by the beach and walked back to Broadway along the beach front. When I got back to my motel, I even had a nap!

My god, these breaks away from my family, from my everyday pressures, sure make me realise how important these breaks away are!

I returned to the beach front on Saturday evening, hoping to experience a sunset, and I wasn't dissapointed at all. It was fabulous to do a heap of people watching, and have all the time in the world do my own thing and take lots of photos.

I spent all day Sunday, from 8:30am to half past 4 in the afternoon, at the Gymnastics SA training facility, getting my Gymnastic for All accreditation, and then drove the four and a half hours home! Hence, no post last week.

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Climbing Mount Schank

I love the area we live in. So many great day trips and things to do, and I am glad we go to see them.

One of the recent things we did was climb Mount Schank, and then proceed to walk to the middle of the volcanic cinder cone and climb back out again! My legs were screaming for mercy on the way back up from the centre, I'm sure they wished I would fall down and die right there. I made it and am so glad Izzy convinced us to do it. She bounced all the way and didn't tire AT ALL! If you do decide to visit, make sure you wear walking shoes and bring a drink bottle.

Mount Schank is about 12 km from Mount Gambier in South Australia's south east. It is part of Australia's first geo park, Kanawinka, which extends from Millicent in South Australia, to near Melbourne in Victoria. Kanawinka is a Buandik aboriginal word, which means 'Land of tomorrow'. 

It is the youngest of Australia's volcanos, erupting 5000 years ago, and rising about 100 metres from the flat lands surrounding it.

Mount Schank was sighted and named by Lieutenant James Grant in December 1800. Grant named it after Admiral John Schank, designer of Grant's ship, HMS Lady Nelson.

From the carpark, where there are toilets, a bbq and picnic area, it's a 15 minute walk to the rim. The views on the walk up, and at the rim are amazing. We could see all the way to the windtowers near Millicent, about 60km away, and to the ocean at Port MacDonnell. It was a drizzly day, so the views on a finer day would be absolutely amazing.

If you want to further explore, you can walk the 1.9km rim, or venture down to the floor of the crater, which we did. 

Summer could see a face in the rock. We think it's the fossilised remains of Jabba the Hut. Can you see it?

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Super moon distraction

Monday night was the rising of the last super moon for 2017. In our neck of the woods in South Australia, at 8:55 pm to be exact.

At this time of night I am usually settled in front of the telly with a wine in hand. Sitting drinking wine in the evening stops me from doing loads of things I could be doing, and I have just gotten into the habit I think, because that is me time. It's my time to just sit, but I've associated that time to drinking wine.

While having me time is a good thing, it just so happens that drinking most nights isn't so good. So I am on a mission to try and change that. 

In the past I have found that replacing one vice with another is usually the way to go. Or not...cigarettes instead of pot...tea instead of cigarettes(which I suppose was good, and no I didn't smoke the tea!)...

Coffee connoisseurs will gasp at the thought, but I've just bought some fake coffee. Coffee has NEVER really agreed with me, and I am not a drinker, but I actually am not minding a cup or two of this. Last night I made a mocha with it as I sat to watch Jamie Oliver and my SBS fix, Struggle Street. Did the trick...

Back to Monday night, Isabel and I jumped int he car and drove out of town a little, up on a hill and waited for the moon to rise. I don't have all the right equipment to properly shoot a super moon or any moon for that fact, but had some good practice for when I am the owner of a decent tripod and an appropriate lens. It was a great evening out with my eldest daughter, until she started complaining to go. I am sure it is the complaint of many a photographers family member., forced to stay until every photograph has been taken.

This is classic funny Izzy, pulling faces for the camera

Sunsets for the soul

These photos are a few weeks old. I've only just had time to edit and post them.

We stayed at our holiday house in Pelican Point in the Limestone Coast of South Australia.

I got the chance for a walk down the beach on my own, with my camera.

These houses are situated on the beach front. Ours is on the back streets, away from the sea, which is kinda better, considering in the rough and high seas of winter, when the waves crash in their front yards!

This bay is called Bungalow Bay, so fitting....imagine being a local and seeing the changing scenes of this bay every week, we only get to see it every few weeks.  

It is a real treat when the sun puts on a show when we are there. 

In the morning we went exploring at Red Rock Bay, where there are more awesome sights.

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