Well, here I go again, LOL.
Fly out early on Thursday 14th, Perth-Sydney-Dallas, Texas. 11 nights in Texas, then a flight to Orlando Florida. 6 nights in Florida and then boarding a cruise ship on the 1st October and doing 2 weeks in the Caribbean. Gong to be a bit traumatic I reckon, with all the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma. Here’s hoping Hurricane Lee (next on the list) is very very shy!

Didn’t have a great sleep last night, The cold front moved in and the wind set off a tree rubbing and banging against a shed out back!

Anyway, we headed out for a virtual garden just outside the CBD of Adelaide. Mind you we made the most of not many vehicles on the roads and drove through Adelaide a few times. It did rain a few times, just short, sharp showers.  We had a pleasant walk around a couple of open parks and got back to the car for the next shower of rain,

We then stopped for a little street walking and once again made it back to the car before it rained. But the wind was quite strong and rather cold.

Home for a spot of lunch and then we headed out again for some more street walking, but not so lucky with the rain, we had to don rain coats and stick the phones into plastic bags and got a tad damp several times.

Had a good trip, walked around 85 kms over the 5 days, sore feet, and lots and lots of munzees, LOL.

 Helen at the park Maria at the parkGetting ready for rain

Another warm start to the day, but it got much colder later.

Gary dropped us off at a munzee weapons cluster, so once again walking the streets looking at power pokes and signs! Some old houses and interesting gardens. We have seen lots of fruit & nut trees including persimmons, apples and walnuts. Lots of dahlias and lavender as well.

Only stayed out for a couple of hours or so and then spent a couple of hours at home. Then we headed out to the Adelaide Easter Munzee Event a little early. We did a walk around one side of the park until the start and then had a meet and greet session with the locals.  From there we then walked around the Thornden park itself, which had once been a reservoir. The water tower is still a feature and there are lots of natural areas as well as park land, picnic areas, barbecues and playgrounds. We had to walk around the whole area to find the special event munzees and also solve the 15 Eventzee clues for the photo scavenger hunt. Great fun and a lovely walk. Home again for dinner! BTW, we did find a geocache this morning. We were scanning a munzee on the side of a bin when the lady walking her dog came past and said we were cold. What we were looking for was under the bridge, We explained munzee to her and then looked for the cache!

 Old house  Trees and power lines! Wooden echindas Wooden wombat Some seeding plant!Helen & emus

Thornden Park

Thornden Park

Bit of a mixed bag today.

Gary dropped us off south east of the city centre and so we had a walk through some nice suburban streets and some parks, Finishing off with a walk along the Torrens river. After having lunch and a little rest we were dropped off north of where we are staying and did another fire garden, so more street walking. We split up and went 3 ways to maximize our captures, but sadly my highway walk had mostly missing munzees. We were going to walk off to another patch but decided after our 30,000+ steps already that it was really time to go home. So Gary picked us up and we came home for diner and the end of the day!

 Morning coffe Swallows under bridge

Well dopey here forgot her Fitbit, so haven’t done any steps, LOL. Mind you we didn’t do much walking today but it would still have been nice to have them recorded.

Anyway, we went for a drive today. Gary stayed home so with Helen behind the wheel we headed north to Gawler. There are lots of virtual resort munzees out there, so this was the only way to get some of the may here around Adelaide. We drove through the Barossa Valley and stopped in Lyndoch for a cuppa, but the cafe was closed, so we carried ion to Tanunda where we had a coffee break. From there we headed back to Gawler and then carried on to Semaphore on the coast (well the shore of the St Vincent Gulf).  We stopped for lunch at a seaside cafe and then drove south again to Glenelg. Continuing south again we headed for the Onkaparinga River Regional Park where Helen and Maria become mountain goats and I ventured a little way up the hill!

We then headed back to home base via Glen Osmond and Mardun as we didn’t want to drive through Adelaide as the traffic is awful!

Once home had a little breather then headed out for 90 minutes of munzeeing. Met a local munzee hunter and had a chat and then headed home for dinner.

 Odd place for a bull! SemaphoreSemaphoreHelen was at the top Maria is at the top!

Well we had a different day today, only managed 30,000+ steps today, LOL. H, M & I left just before 7 and did some walking, Gary picked us up about 10 and we went home for some refreshments and a break. Us girls went out again for a little while again and then met Gary at the local shops for a shopping expedition for those essential things like food, LOL.

After lunch around 2 we all left the house just after 3 and headed for Glenelg about 45 minutes away. The traffic was quite heavy so even though Glenelg is relatively close it took a long time.

We had a walk along the park and then across the bridge, carried on along the shore and then back home.

historical marker Glenelg pier Glenelg beachGlenelg beach Historic ship restaurant

Sunset at Glenelg

Well, what is needed this evening is a foot masseuse. After 34,500+ steps ones feet are a little stiff and sore, LOL.

H, M and I left home at 6.30 am and walked the streets. Adelaide has lots of lovely old houses, as well as the University and Cathedral. Lots of parks and gardens around the place. It was cool to start off but warmed up to being almost to hot to be out on the streets.

We got back for lunch and a rest and then left here again about 2 and Gary dropped us off near the city centre and we did a bit more street walking after which he picked up up again and now we are relaxing, cooking dinner and writing blog!

Here are a few photos from today!

 Flying foxes The girls & Cathedral Huge Morton Bay fig Interesting mural Don’t know what this is?

Well, here we go again, LOL.
Started packing at 4.45 and and finished a couple of hours later, Had a couple of diversions in there, but got it done. So far don’t seem to have forgotten anything.  Arrived at the airport at 11, dropped off the bag and then got that elusive hotel munzee outside which I haven’t been able to find before!

Helen and Gary have been in South Australia fora few days already and Maria flew in an hour or so before me. I had a man next to me who sniffed the whole trip, very annoying, but it was only a 3 hour flight. Even managed a short nap!

Maria had already got my suitcase by the time I got down to the baggage carousel and then Helen & Gary arrived at the pick-up spot as we got outside. Great timing all round. Only a short drive north to our accommodation. Stopped at the shops for a forgotten item as H & G had already been shopping. Helen has found another nice house for us to stay in and after unpacking us 3 girls went for a little munzee walk whilst Gary looked after the lasagna in the oven.

Nice dinner with salad included, and now H, G & M are doing cryptic crosswords and I’m writing this. South Australia is 90 minutes ahead of WA, so it’s time for bed, LOL

Had another late night early morning, lol.

We all went for a drive to cap some newly deployed virtual resorts, and then walked around our event trail as we hadn’t got it capped the day before. Then Lisa, Deb and Duncan walked around the lake and capped those as I had already done them, so I sat and chatted with Geraldine & Pete. From there we went back to the same highway to get more ne resorts and to put some out. Mission accomplished we went back to the hotel to pack and check out for 10. After that we had a treat. Lisa took us out to the farm where her calves are bred. We only saw he latest from a distance as it had been released out to paddock, but there we 3 other babies in the pens. A first for me I reckon, I was around all that hay, and straw and furry things and didn’t sneeze once!!!!!

From there we drove over to the Australia emerald garden so that Deb could get her million points badge, very exciting! And then on to the airport where we said farewell to Deb & Duncan. Deb off to Brisbane and Duncan to Perth but a different airline. Lisa and I sat around for a bit, caught our flight. I slept a bit, had my log book signed and was told that the American Airlines captain from a flight last year was a very famous pilot!

Found the car first look this time, helps having the correct car park, lol, popped into Mum’s and then home. Back at work Monday, sigh. Had a great trip, met lots of wonderful people and saw lots of great things. xoxo

And what’s a better way of finishing off a visit to Shepparton than cow pictures!

Well today was our event, WA Day in SheppZee, to which we had a great turnout, 67 scanned the attendees pin. We got to the Gardens a little after 8 and set up a table with fund raising items on for the Zaidee Foundation and a raffle. Also the all important laptop on which to mark the Eventzee photos.

We had the introduction and instructions and everyone then made their way off to cap munzees and photograph what they thought were the answers to our clues. This kept Lisa and I busy for a long time as we had 59 people submitting photos for 20 clues.

Once most people had returned around noon, we had a cheque presentation to the founder of the Zaidee foundation and lots of thank yous and prize winners and everyone seemed to have had a good time.

We had a very late lunch (no breakfast!) and then took Deb on a capping spree as she wanted the 100k badge, which is hard to get at any other time than an event. Having achieved that we had a short break in the hotel, and then off to dinner with a table of 9. Lots of chat and fun and laughter! From there we headed to the Aussie Hotel to sit and talk more, but the band started playing just after 10 and we couldn’t hear ourselves at all, LOL. A brief interlude outside the hotel and then back to our rooms, another late night!

Trying to find a nano cache the night before

The Zaidee Rainbow cow