Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Naracoorte


We left Adelaide yesterday and we were all a little grumpy.  The kids were grumpy because we were leaving a nice warm house, toys and a tv, Jason was grumpy because we were heading east towards home and I was grumpy because we weren’t at home yet!
We decided to head to Naracoorte to see the caves and fossils as recommended by Kim and Trudi.  On our way we did a bit of a quick side trip past Christies Beach where I lived before my family moved to Queensland.  I remember the park next door and the big cliffs (although they both looked a lot larger when I was 5!) but it was still good to go down memory lane.

Onto Naracoorte and we managed to find the Retra-Vision store to swap our heater over that decided to stop working when we were at Ayres Rock and the boys found the local McDonalds playground.
It rained most of the night but we woke up and the sun was shining.  We headed to the Naracoorte Caves.  We did a short tour through Alexandra Cave and saw the stalactites and stalagmites.  They also have the Wonambi Fossil Centre here and we had a walk through the interactive centre with life size models of extinct animals.  The boys loved it!  It was very well done and worth a visit.

The weather certainly hasn’t been in our favour lately and in true form it rained most of the afternoon.  It did give us some much needed “down time” so it was a great excuse to do nothing. 
Heading to Victoria tomorrow to visit The Grampians.  It certainly does feel like our trip is coming to an end far too quickly!

Nat




 
 
 

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