Took hours to get to sleep - restless legs. Then awake from after 3 til after 5. Hurray. Slept in til like 7:30, out the door around 9:50.
Went to the United down the road as yesterday it was 239.9/L while everywhere else was 249.9/L. Guess what. Today it was 249.9/L same as everywhere else. Sigh.
First stop was Windy Point. Was able to reproduce photos from 1994 (daytime ones) but you can't take a full panorama there because there's too many trees in the way.
Then to Waterfall Gully to the First Creek waterfall. I wasn't expecting it to be flowing, but it was, so that was nice. Looked for birds too but there weren't many about.
It was 12:00 by this point so kept an eye out for places to sit and have our lunch.
Drove along the top of the Adelaide hills which was quite pretty.
Dam 1 - Kangaroo Creek Reservoir. Stopped at the lookout behind the dam which has great views of the back of the dam wall, but there's nowhere good to see the front of the dam wall. Looks like there used to be a lookout at one point but there's nowhere to stop anymore.
Dam 2 - Millbrook Reservoir. I'd already poked around with Google Street View and it looked like you can't get anywhere near the dam wall. So we just drove round the back to get a photo that Mum got in 1969. Lots of trees in the way and again nowhere to stop.
Finally at Williamstown we saw a park with a picnic spot and shelter. Yeah nothing else in the two and three quarter hours since we started looking. So had our salad lunches at 14:45.
Dam 3 - South Para Reservoir. Both Google Maps and Apple Maps suggested you could drive right up to the dam to have a look. But the only road that wasn't fenced off had a big red sign saying "No public access". #fail
Dam 4 - Barossa Reservoir. This was the one I was most looking forward to. The structure of the dam wall has a quirk in acoustics where someone speaking at one end of the dam wall can be heard like a hundred metres away on the other end of the dam wall. But guess what. It was closed. I was PISSED. Their excuse: closed for five weeks from February 23 for "saftey improvements". Sigh.
Continued on to a couple of points in the Barossa that Mum took photos at in 1969.
Then the long drive back to Adelaide. Well, maybe like three quarters of an hour in the countryside (saw some bouncy bouncies and an echidna) and the rest of it through Adelaide peak hour traffic. Why doesn't Adelaide have any sort of decent ring roads? Everything is just one big grid and while traffic does generally flow ok it's still a lot of lights to get through. And don't even get me started on how hard it is to turn across traffic when you can be sitting there for minutes at a time waiting for a break in traffic.
Got back to the flat. Stu collapsed. I went out for beer and dinner. Had that while watching news and other tv and doing gps/photos.
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