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Just before we left we finally ate a meal at Kaesler. They had
three tables set -- one for each cottage. They cooked us eggs
and sausage and bacon, in addition to giving us fruit and croissants.
We were the first of the three cottages there, but the others
soon joined us.
Afterwards we packed up and checked out. We then went into a local
grocery store to do some shopping for food for the next few days
on Kangaroo Island, where we'd be camping.
We had a great time, as always, shopping for camping food. I couldn't
find any granola bars, but found some fruity muesli bars instead.
We split up so we could do all of our shopping quicker. Jean did
all the fresh food while I got the canned and packaged stuff.
Hot chocolate, oatmeal, kleenex, water. We were shopping in a
store called Food Land, and it was quite large and impressive.
They had a deli where we ordered some meats for lunch. They even
had salmon pate, though we didn't buy any.
If you do one drive in the Adelaide area, drive to Cape Jervis.
The first half is stop-and-go traffic with lots of stoplights,
but gets much better after that. We spotted people playing cricket
on the grass near the road. From watching local TV, we knew cricket
is very popular in Australia, as it seems to be in all former
British Empire countries.
Eventually the road opens up and you've got clear sailing among
rolling green hills. The ocean is on your right, beautiful green
hills covered with oak-like trees on your left. As you get closer
to Cape Jervis, the drive reminds me completely of the drive on
Calaveras Road near Sunol during the spring. If you live in the
Bay Area and you've never done this drive, you don't know what
you're missing. It's absolutely beautiful -- for about one month
during the spring. The rest of the time it's hot and dry and brown.
The drive to Cape Jervis
The final stretch of road to Cape Jervis looks like it's going
to plunge straight into the ocean. Of course it doesn't, but in
any case the views are inspiring. We were scheduled to take the
6pm ferry across to Kangaroo Island. We arrived a bit after 5pm.
We checked in and Jean drove the car onto the ferry before joining
me up on the deck outside.
The sun set as we glided across the water to the island. It was
one of the best sunsets on our trip. I didn't take any pictures
though, since, to be honest, it's quite hard to hold a camera
steady on a boat. The ride was much better than the Quick Cat,
but I still became slightly uneasy and was glad when it was over.
They don't recommend you drive at night on Kangaroo Island because
you're almost guaranteed to run into a kangaroo. Keeping that
in mind, we were staying in a motel the first night -- Sorrento.
Once again, I didn't have any directions at all -- only a city
(Penneshaw) and a phone number. I figured it'd be a small enough
city so I wasn't concerned. Sure enough, two blocks down the road
from the ferry we found Sorrento.
One thing I haven't mentioned is my allergies. I'd worried about
it a bit before the trip, since I usually go into sneezing fits
when I'm outdoors during the spring. I'd felt nothing yet, but
today it grew gradually worse in the afternoon. I think the days
in the wine country were catching up to me. To top it off, Sorrento
has a beautiful flower garden. It was too much for me to bear.
I finally cried uncle and took half an antihistamine pill (the
required dose for me to recover and still stay reasonably awake
the next day).
We had dinner in the motel restaurant. It was quite a contrast
to our room, as the restaurant was recently renovated while our
room (while quite comfortable) looked like it came from the 70's.
We had fried shrimp appetizers, corn chowder, and I had some garlic
shrimp with vegetables. We were too stuffed afterwards to have
dessert.
We went back to our room. It was actually a stand-alone building
with its own kitchen, dining area, and two bedrooms. We picked
one bedroom, scattered all our groceries over the dining table,
and went to sleep.
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