Adelaide - Jan.17

We finally made it to Adelaide. What a drive it was to get there, it was almost 3.5 hours in the car but it was worth it. We planned ahead and booked two nights in the Our Backbackers that was impossible to find. It was located on a side street and I drove by it about 3 times and was starting to get frustrated. We got settled and I went and got some Subway. Adelaide was a very nice city, it was a lot less busy than Melbourne and was just as clean.

We finally got our bank information taken care of thanks to Jess. She figured out how to call oversea's much to the dismay of her phone bill and being on hold for almost an hour. I went down to the atm to check and we had MONEY again yay! We had a sweet tv in our room so I watched quite a bit of the Nadal tennis match that night. I had looked in a few of the brochures and found a few things for us to do. The first of which was Cleland Wildlife park. We originally wanted to go to the beach but it was supose to be cloudy and not that hot so we figured we would check the wildlife park out.

It turned out to be the best decison we made ever! This place was truly awesome, there was no other word for it. We had looked in the brochure and saw that would could cuddle a Koala  and pet any of the animals. The lady at the desk told us when all of the pet feeding times were. She also told us that you could feed any of the free roaming animals and it was only 18 dollars, way cheaper than the zoo and turned out to be way better. When we went inside the Kangaroos, wallabies , emus were all walking around and laying under the trees. The dangerous ones like dingos, tasmanian devils and reptiles we all in enclosures.

The Koala close up was at 11 and we just got there on time. Jess and I ran over there straight away and got in line. You cold pet and take pictures with the Koala, which was really awesome. I never thought we would ever get that close to one of these amazing creatures but we did. It was really lucky we went that day when it was cloudy too because the last few days it was too hot and they couldn;t bring the Koala's out in the heat because they got upset. They had to change the Koala's every 30 minutes because they didn't like being over handled and all needed something to eat. When we went in with the keeper the Koala that was there was named Hazel and she was 9 years old and was considered a mature Koala since they generally live about 12 years. However they live a bit longer when they are in captivity because of how well they are taken care of. The Koala was so soft and I couldn't believe how fast they eat, they normally move so slow but as soon as you put so fresh gumtree leaves in front of them they come alive. The keep said we could pet them but not to touch around their ears because they are really sensitive. Jess was the happiest person on the planet when we did this she was so happy.

We spent the whole afternoon here and it was so much better than the zoo just because of the close interaction that you could experience. 

Theses birds were everywhere

These little southern Brown Bandicoot's were everywhere.

Jess and her favorite new friend Hazel

So excited!!!

Jess thinks we look alike...

buttlefly's everywhere again

This is a Big Red Kangaroo, and let me tell you he was big when he stood up.

There tongues were very soft and furry.

This one walked right up too me!

Jess pet this baby for about 15 minutes

These Emu's made quite loud noises

This guy was from a group in the back that were very friendly

There was only one Wombat outside the rest were sleeping.

Wallabies, Jess found a little guy to feed.

We got to the Dingo's Just after feeding time but they were still crunching down on the bones pretty good.

The view from Glenelg jetty. 

After Cleland we went beach scooping. I had looked in the brochures to see which beach was the best and it said Glenelg. After an Frappuccino to cool down, one long wait to get out of the parking lot we headed of ever to Glenelg. This beach was beautiful and white sand as far as you could see. There was a small vibrant little beach community there as well. It was a good day and we were both popped so we headed home for some dinner.