My host family took me on a road trip through the west of South Australia.
The first part of the trip was going to the Flinders Ranges, which feels like the middle of nowhere and depending how deep you go into there you can even officially call it outback.
It took us a few hours to get to "Angorichina village" which was a tiny campground with a few cabins and a little shop full of mainly random things. One of the cabins was our accommodation for the next 2 days.
The next morning we took some dirt roads (typical Australian red dirt, I love it), to get to "Wilpina pound", the most famous part of the Flinders ranges national park. We hiked up a little mountain "mt. Olsson-Bagge", next to saint Marie's peak. The hike was quite easy and only took about 1 1/2 hours on the way up (if I remember it right). However, the view was pretty amazing and definitely worth it.The only thing that made it exhausting was the heat and sun, there wasn't much shade around.
On our last day in the Flinders, I climbed up a hill next to our campground, to get a good overview of the area, it was definitely almost as good as from the top of the mountain the day before.
An Emu came super close! (sorry for the weird colour of the pic)
After that we drove to a tiny former mining village (dirt roads again) for lunch and exploring, except, there wasn't much to explore. It was still very interesting to have a look around, even though it was extremely small! And nothing more than dust, rocks and some little mountains/hills around. The local pub was surprisingly crowded though and the food was pretty good as well.
At night we went to the apparently very famous "Prairie hotel", which was about half an hour from hour accommodation. It is especially famous for its "roadkill" platter, which e.g. includes Emu and Kangaroo meat.
tiny village of Blinman
the prairie hotel
Outback sunset- in front of the prairie hotel
The day after, we started the second part of the trip. We drove for about 6 hours further west on a VERY! straight road, to a small town called Cummins, where my host family used to live.
We stayed at my host sister's husband's parents' (the Modras) place.
The next morning we headed down to port Lincoln, which is a very nice town about an hour from cummins.
on the way to cummins we stopped in a town called 'Whyalla'
cummins!
port lincoln
One of the major attractions there is "swimming with the tuna". My host parents invited me to go and do it with them.
At first we went on a boat to get to more open sea, where they have there big tuna farms. One of them got changed, so they can use it for tourists. Once we arrived there, we had to change into a wet suit, goggles and snorkel before we could jump into the (cold) water. Once we were in we swam snorkeling around looking at the big fat Tunas for around 1 - 2 hours. It was a great experience, I was surprised how big the Tunas looked from up close! Luckily tea and coffee was included in the price, so that helped me warm up after I got changed back into my normal clothes.
the swimming with the tuna boat
the platform
When we were back in Lincoln I caught up with Gus from Belgium again, who is hosted there. He showed me around the town, his school and house, but we only had 1 hour before we had to go back to meet my host parents.
Back in Cummins we drove out of the town to have a look at the Modra's huge farm and met the little grand children (4, 2 and 1 yr old), who came over for dinner after. It was really great for me to have the little ones around that night, because I was used to having my little sister in Germany. Playing with them was great fun!
the modra farm
The next day, the fun part of the trip was over, as we had to drive back to the Adelaide hills in one go (more than 7 hours...).
All together it was a great trip!! I was a bit sad that none of my friends were able to come with me so I was the only young person but I still had a great time!!
sorry I couldn't find a lot of photos I think my host family still has them....
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