A special lunchtime cookout featuring kangaroo, emu, and crocodile meat was held on the sea day between Melbourne and Adelaide. So we suspended ourvegetarian/fish diet to partake. Very tasty! We sailed into Adelaide at sunrise. (Itinerary) 

 
The port volunteers sang us Australian songs as this jug band played. A very nice welcome...

 
The train station was across the street from the port. Very handy because there was not much to see near the dock.

 
We switched to a tram and went to the Central Market, which unfortunately was closed.

 
Outside a Catholic church, the statue of a nun with the two children whose features were obviously aboriginal.

 
The morning light in the church caused the columns glow.

      
We liked this ball stuck between the buildings.

 
The railway station serves as the hub of a nice rail system, which we used extensively during our 2-day stay.

We enjoyed the street art near the festival event center.

 
Adleaide was hosting the world cricket championships. A raucous cricket match between India and Pakistan was in progress as we passed. We saw groups of fans parading around town carrying flags.

   
We saw these magpie larks and some other birds around this eleaborate fountain to drink the water runoff.

 
We headed down toward the river walk and saw this lapwing and these interesting ducks.

 
The mosaic under this bridge told fish tales. Black & white cormorants wished for more than just the stories.

 
Black swans, river boats, and large eucalyptus trees made for a pleasant walk by the river.

   
We took a bus headed to Hahndorf, an old German settlement.

   
We liked the small museum in the back of the tourist office.

 
We walked the length of the main road and thought that it had become not much more that a tourist trap, but good to know that they urge people to be careful of their old folk.

   
A Lutheran church seemed in character with a German town. We stopped at the strawberry farm outside of the town hoping they'd have some cold German beer, but no, so we had cream sodas, which were so sweet they made our teeth ache, but we drank them down anyway.

 
One last front yard from Hahndorf and we took the bus back to the train station where headed for the Outer Harbor and called it a day.

We got an early start the next morning, took a train to town again, and headed for the Botanic Garden, which is behind the South Australia University campus. We liked this overflowing fountain sculpture in front of the university.

We liked the university flag...

 
Another World War I memorial. It was was very hard on Australia.

   
Grey-headed flying foxes, large fruit bats with leathery wings, were settling down for the day. There were hundreds of them. We'd spent quite a bit of time watching another species of flying fox in Syndey 3 years ago. We love the way they perch: they fly near a branch, stick out one foot, grab the branch, and swing around the branch as they come to a stop. We didn't realize when taking the photo that the bat spreading his wings was a male... Maybe we should call him Flasher.

 
This 6' tall sculpture of a chimp finger near the zoo struck us as odd. We saw several groups of black & white ibises. (ibi?)

 
We heard the melodious songs of the magpie in the gardens. We loved the classic lines of this conservatory.

   
We had fun watching the rainbow lorikeets compete for the top of this fountain. One was squirting water in various directions as its talon went inside the opening.

 
What fun.

   
Our attention wandered as this lovely Italian student was catching native blue-banded bees in a flower bed with a net and was deftly transferring them into lab jars. She had to examine them with a microscope to identify which of the 3 species these were. She showed us where their nest was.

 
Shortly after talking to the sudent we found a beehive tree with the non-native honey bees. We had seen some of these conifers with very yellow tips all around Australia, so we went closer for a look.

   
We heard giggling from inside the tree and found these 2 school girls who said that this was their favorite spot in the gardens and that they always come here. Dean asked them what the tree was, but they didn't know. They did claim that they were native to Australia, though. We found another tree with a broken sign. We came back to tell them in case anyone else asked them.

 
Two dads and their boys for a day at the gardens. The kids riding in the bike were barefoot, the dad dropped 4 sandals on the ground to get them ready for exploring.

 
The sculpture in front of this conservatory was constructed from hundreds of glass sheets.