Day 4 Rawnsley Park Station / Hawker. 70km return. 5 September 2018

Posted on 05/09/2018 by Greg

We decided on an easy day today, yes this #retiredlyf takes it out of you.

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Day 3 Rawnsley Park Station 4th September 2018

Posted on 04/09/2018 by Deb and Greg

We had the best day. ?

Woke around 5am after an early night, was 4C, much warmer than the night before.  ?? I got up and put on the aircon and got back into bed until 6am.  Just before 7am we headed down to the shop and waited for our guide to arrive.  For the morning bushwalk and breakfast tour.

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Day 1& 2 Adelaide to Rawnsley Park Station via Gawler. Sunday 2nd September and Monday the 3rd, 2018. 430km

Posted on 03/09/2018 by Deb and Greg

Yes, I know!   Another adventure awaits ? 

Sunday 2nd Sept 2018

Yesterday we went down to pick up the caravan, then we visited dad and mum. We wished dad a happy Father’s Day, it was lovely to see them both.  ❤️

We headed home and by 3pm the caravan was ready to go.  We decided we would spend the first night at Gawler, an hour from home. It was good to get through town, the traffic was light and that made the journey this morning easier. Continue reading →

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A Weekend Away at Cowirra near Mannum South Australia.  25th to 27th August 2018

Posted on 26/08/2018 by Greg

Don’t you love it when birthdays just keep on going.

This weekend was planned by Deb so we could wind up my birthday celebrations in style together. We have stayed in Bob’s Bungalow at Riverview Rise Retreats in Cowirra near Mannum. Continue reading →

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Day 24 Dubai to Adelaide, 29th July 2018

Posted on 01/08/2018 by Deb and Greg

We had a 3 1/2 hour wait in Dubai for our next flight.   It was the first time we had been to Dubai.  Was 40C at 10.30pm, but we didn’t feel the heat at the airport.   We went to the lounge for a few hours and relaxed.  Was the best lounge we went in this holiday.

Was good to finally get on the plane, it had been a long day.

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Day 23 Diani Beach to Dubai

Posted on 29/07/2018 by Deb and Greg

Was a beautiful moonrise last night over the Indian Ocean?  But we didn’t see the Red Moon.    We woke at 6am, with the help of the alarm.  Breakfast at 6.30am said our good byes to Harrison & Marica then at 7.30am Douglas our driver took us to the airport. His father came to Kenya with the British in the 1940’s.

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Africa, Day 22, Diani Beach

Posted on 27/07/2018 by Deb and Greg

Last full day in Africa and we slept better last night. ?  Today was pretty much the same as yesterday, except on our beach walk with Atheman we headed south this morning, was interesting and different.   The reef was out of the water, it looked beautiful.   There weren’t as many hawkers and we saw a guy who had caught an Octopus  I don’t think I have seen one freshly caught, up close.  Our walk was more leisurely this morning, we were gone about an hour.

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Africa 21 July 2018 An Interesting Drive

Posted on 27/07/2018 by Greg

I am going to guess that everyone missed/read over my description of our drive to the airport on Saturday  21 July,  I described it as “interesting”, well there was a little more to it than that.

I should say now that we are both in one piece, shall we say, shaken but not stirred. Continue reading →

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African Adventures 6th July – 29th July 2018, Highlights

Posted on 27/07/2018 by Deb and Greg

We were talking about the highlights of our holiday a few nights ago and I had a revelation, other than the siting of the leopard, and being immersed in wildebeest, no other siting of an animal rated as highly as so many other things we experienced. I had expected the animals on the game drives to be the highlight of our holiday.   But our holiday has been so much more than that.   We loved the game drives, and did many but other activities rated as highly if not higher in some instances.

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Africa, Day 21, Diani Beach

Posted on 27/07/2018 by Deb and Greg

 

We didn’t sleep well last night.  We love a firm mattress but the one here is hard, have never slept on such a hard mattress, could have been on the floor.  All night long kept thinking I was on a waterboard but B & C insist I wasn’t.  ? I obviously had too much time to think. When we saw Marica in the morning to discuss our meals for the day, she said she would swap the mattress over, and kept repeating it was a posturpedic mattress.  Hopefully tonight will be better and more sleep will be had.  

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