Friday 13th March – Adelaide – fine sunny clear weather.o

We had a late start this morning – keeping up with the washing before we come home.  The new camera is the same make – Olympus 100ee.  I have upgraded from 20x optical zoom to 50x optical zoom and from 12 mega pixels to 16 mega pixels.  A bit more edge on wildlife photography with dot technology which locks onto the subject and keeps it in focus while it is moving.  Will I get better photographs – I will let you know when I learn to use this technology.  Easy to use, yes as it is quite similar to my old camera so I could get up and running quite fast.

Himeji is a sister city to Adelaide.  We have been to Himeji, so were interested in visiting the Japanese garden which was designed with gardeners from Himeji. 

It is a lovely garden, but is squeezed into such a small area of a very large park.  It was too crowded with plants and we did not see this in the gardens in Japan.

 

 

 

Using my new camera.  I had a little play with some of the settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A tortoise in the middle on the lake. There is a huge difference having 50x power zoom compared to 20x manual zoom.

The same photo cropped and enlarged.  Really happy with the detail of a tortoise in the middle of a lake.  Nothing pretty about these guys.

 

 

 

 

After the gardens we walked over to the Haigh Chocolate Factory.  On our trips to Tasmania we didn’t manage to visit the Cadbury chocolate factory, so this one was on the agenda today.  The chocolate is expensive and nice, but not the best I have tasted.  I love all the street tree plantings but found today that it works against you when you are looking for a building as the trees hide the building names.

 

 

 

 

Our next destination was Glenelg.   Glenelg is nearly 11 kms out of Adelaide City.   We caught the tram down. (no charge out of peak) Transport around Adelaide is so easy.

 

We had late lunch/dinner at Europa at the Bay Restaurant – great service, nice staff.    We shared a small Picante pizza PEPPERONI, ROASTED CAPSICUMS, MUSHROOMS, OLIVES, CHILLI, TOMATO & MOZZARELLA CHEESE made using their own dough.  It was delicious washed down with 5 Seed Apple Cider.   View above of tram stop and below with the tram in.  They are so quiet that you don’t even hear them arriving.  This is the last week of the Adelaide Fringe Festival.  There is a lot of street entertainment.

 

Glenelg beach front – just check out the sky.

 

 

Autumn is the best time to visit Adelaide – the heat is gone and the cold has not arrived.

 

We caught the tram back to the city ($2.60 peak times) and then swapped to the free circuit bus to get back to camp.  We have the bus numbers worked out now 98C (clockwise) 98A (anti-clockwise).  Glen figured that one out – so now we know which way they run.