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Welcome to Wout of the World, and in this episode, you’re still with me in South Australia. This here is the city of Adelaide. Yeah. High five. Oh, yes, we’re doing the big lap around Australia. We’re making this road trip with this awesome 4×4 Campervan of WA Experts. I say, let’s go.
Previously, we showed you Victoria, with the first stop being nature paradise, Wilsons Prom.
Next up, we hit the big city, and we truly loved Melbourne. Then we started driving the south coast as we took you along the world famous Great Ocean Road.
We drove the entire 243 kilometres full of wonders, from Torquay to Warrnambool.
And this is symbolic because this is where the rest of our South Australia road trip begins, all the way to Perth.
It’s Pizza time.
The Great Ocean Road was fantastic, but we got no time to waste because we’re delivering this camper van in Perth. So we got a long route to go all the way along the south Coast of Australia. And this is Mount Gambier, where we slept. It was pretty cold last night. Now the sun is shining and we’re moving up to Robe and then to Adelaide, the big city, before we our road trip along the south Coast all the way to Perth.
I can truly recommend this place for the peace and quietness.
Here in South Australia, we don’t only have kangaroos and koalas, we also have alpacas.
You see them everywhere.
Look who’s just up and all ready for this road trip. What are you watching? Penguins of Madagascar.
It turns out South Australia’s roads are very idyllic in general.
As we drive to the coastal town, South of Adelaide, Robe. Robe is a small fishing town on the limestone coast in South Australia. Since the 1800s, this has been an international port when first the Chinese immigrants came here to go and look for gold in Australia.
Nowadays, it’s a perfect holiday destination because of the perfect beaches. There is some history, there’s a laidback culture, and it’s also good for fishing.
We look up a nice playground at the beach, soak up some history in the cozy colonial streets and are amazed by the blue water surrounding this picture-perfect beach town. Especially the cliffs at the Lighthouse are a good example of the rugged nature we can find in South Australia.
I’m wondering if you still see the influence of the Chinese immigrants in the 1800s here in Robe. I guess you do, because they have only 1500 inhabitants, and they do have a Chinese restaurant.
The local shops of Robe are very interesting and offer all kinds of specialties and crafts. And after Robe, it’s back to no man’s land. So I did know that Australia had a lot of camels because they were brought over here to cross the desert in the past, but I never actually saw them somewhere. Over here, I found some of them. They’re actually dromedaries.
Did you know that not Egypt or Mongolia, but Australia has the largest population of camels in the world? They were first brought here from the Canary Islands in 1840, and the number is estimated to be one million. It’s actually quite shocking that the population still doubles every nine years at the moment. For us, this is only the first time that we see them, and they are such beautiful creatures. How awesome.
Closer to Adelaide, we find more wonderful nature as the landscape starts to look like another planet. On our way to Adelaide, we drive through the Coorong National Park. And in that National Park, we find a lot of lakes, some blue ones, some green ones, and some pink ones. This is the Coorong Pink Lake. How incredible. A salt Lake with a pink colour.
Australia has many coloured lakes, some more vibrant in colour than others. It’s the microbes inside the salt lakes that caused the incredible shades of pink. In other countries, this is actually what causes flamingos to be pink.
Not too far north, we find the next one called Meningie Pink Lake.
Road trips tend to make a man hungry. She’s getting so big.
When it gets dark, we find the perfect spot in the woods. Wow, it’s chilly. We went all the way to in Adelaide last night, but we couldn’t find a good campsite. They were all closed or fully booked, so we had to find a spot out in the naturen, so in Bridgewater, just outside of town, in the woods, we slept here. It was perfect. It was quiet under the stars and the smell of the woods. We woke up with the dew on the grass, and now it’s very cold, but we’re ready for a nice city trip in Adelaide.
Maybe you saw them over there in the background, but there is wildlife, some opacas. Okay, not wild, but they’re nice.
We exchange the woods for the city life. And in all that nature, suddenly, the fifth biggest metropolitan area of Australia rises at the horizon.
For a city with a population over a million, this city feels quite relaxed and spacious. We drive straight in the town in no time on a Friday morning.
Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, and it’s also the fifth city in population in all of Australia. It has 1.4 million people, and that’s a lot, considering the entire state of South Australia has only 1.8 million. We’re going to see some sites, and we start here right in the middle. This is Victoria Square.
There she is in the middle, Queen Victoria. The British flag still represents the only free settlement of the British in Australia, where all the other states were mainly used to deport prisoners.
Adelaide is well known for the culture, the festivals, some of the best restaurants in Australia, and a lot of wineries. It’s also been awarded the name UNESCO City of Music in Australia in 2015.
Adelaide is often called the 20 Minute City, because with the public transport, you can get anywhere in town within 20 minutes.
It’s also called the City of Churches because it has so many of them. This beautiful church is the Francis Xavier Cathedral.
Adelaide is a city with a lot of cultures, and it also has some history with Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. For that, it’s also nice to make a little stroll through Chinatown.
Chinatown is just a small section in the city centre, but it It really feels like I left Australia and entered Asia.
Adelaide got its name from King William IV in 1836. He was at the time the King of Great Britain and named the city after his wife, the Queen. And all over town, we still see buildings from that time.
Time to explore the modern side of the city with all the tall skyscrapers and hip neighbourhoods. Somehow this reminds me a bit of Singapore, the art trees. Awesome.
Here we see Australia’s fourth biggest stadium, the Adelaide Oval, used for cricket and Aussie Rules Football. And on the other On the west side of the River Torrance, we find St Peter’s Cathedral.
This is the Government House, where the governors of South Australia have lived since 1840. So I was looking where you can find the best view on the city, and it’s just across the water from the theatre building. And there’s an Asian festival going on. Festival City, I told you before. Really nice.
At last, we pay a visit to the art district of Adelaide, with the most important museums. Our experience in Adelaide was a great and we loved the vibe over there. Now it’s time to go off-radar again and find some natural wonders.
So we left Adelaide and we’re driving South Australia again all the way to the other side along the coast. On the way, we have this outer space landscape with a lot of different coloured salt lakes. Over here is a pink one in Lochiel. I think I see the Loch Ness Monster over there. Lochiel, Loch Ness Monster., they had a little bit of fun with that.
If your town is shy of visitors and you want more tourists to stop at your amazing Pink Lake, this is the way to make it happen. The Loch Ness Monster looks surreal. It’s like we ended up in a movie set. But even without Nessie, this place is stunning and definitely worth a stop on the big lap around Australia.
We see more lakes on the way as we slowly drive into the Outback to find an incredible free campsite once again. Today, we drove We’re from Adelaide all the way to Port Augusta, which was about 2 hours.
From here, we’ll be driving down the coast to a beautiful coastal town called Whyalla. We needed a place to stay, and I think this will do fine for the night. It’s on WikiCamps. What a beautiful place. It’s a wrap. A delicious one. This is all you need for family fun time, right?
Just being out here in the nature, enjoying dinner, and kicking around the ball. Life can be so simple.
We drive to Whyalla and are immediately welcomed by the Maritime Museum. Oh, and more cockatoos than we ever saw before. Whyalla is a town that’s best known for the migration of thousands of cuttlefish that takes place between May and August. Unfortunately it’s now October, but we still go here to see the beautiful coastline and the biggest pier in the Southern hemisphere. And there is one more thing here to do in Whyalla, because you You don’t even have to go on a tour to see dolphins here. You can just see them in the Harbour. Look, they’re right over there. Look, look, look. So I’m going to check them out with my drone.
Super cool.
This is probably the easiest spot in the world to find wild dolphins. They are playing around in the harbour and giving away a free show.
We check out the beach town before we continue the South Coast road trip, leaving society behind us little by little. It’s like we’re in the Outback again.
Yeah.
Traveling through no man’s land. See the next site, South Australia. It looks a bit like the West and the North here.
We drive through Kimba, a rural surface town near the halfway point of the South Coast, and we see the big galah. So before we go and make a big road trip all the way to Western Australia, there’s one more stop in South Australia, which is a town called Ceduna. It has a beautiful location between the rocks and the beaches, and it’s called the Oyster capital of Australia. We use this town to stack up on food and gas before we drive off for two days into no man’s land.
Ceduna is a very nice town for the beaches and the relaxed atmosphere, but it’s also a bit isolated, and it feels like the end of the civilised world. From here, we’ll be driving from the one gas station to the next, with the occasional roadhouse, of course. This is Outback lifee, we slept in Eucla. It’s a little town on the border of South Australia and Western Australia. It’s also almost halfway driving from Adelaide all the way to the West Coast. The flies is here. Then you really know that you’re in the Outback, this is where we slept. Wow.
Love it.
The pinnacle of how monotonous this road trip is, is the 90 miles straight. Not even the slightly The widest curve or bend in 150 kilometres. Until on the other side, we arrive in Norseman, the first inhabited place we encounter here in Western Australia.
That’s it for this episode.
Unfortunately, we left South Australia, but we welcomed a new state, Western Australia. It’s actually the state where we started this road trip in the first place, because from Broome, we now went all the way to Darwin, along the East Coast, down to Melbourne, and now through the South, all the way, almost to Perth.
So what do you think, guys? Free campsite in the middle of Norseman. Over here, we’re going to have some good times in the sun and with some flies, but that’s Western Australia. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy a preview of what’s coming your way over the next month.
As we finish the big lap in Australia and head straight over to Asia.
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