Belair National Park

Adelaide

So, we finally made it to Adelaide, and what a lovely city it is. We booked into the Belair National Park Caravan Park, which is right next door to, you guessed it, Belair National Park. The drive up to the caravan park was interesting, with narrow winding roads (though nothing like Tom CAT Hill) offering glimpses of the city below us through the grey drizzly sky. I enjoyed it, Peter was too busy driving 😊

Its quite a small caravan park and after all the bush camping we’ve been doing it seems strange to have neighbours again. I’m sure we’ll get used to them, especially those little fluffy neighbours.

 

We were close to the city, twenty to thirty minutes to the CBD, depending on traffic, so this was a great spot for us to to begin to organise our admin, repairs, purchases (our coffee machine broke, and we simply cannot live without that) and our medical stuff. In amongst all that we did have time to explore and do a couple of walks through Belair National Park.

We were told to look out for Koalas in the national park, we’ve been told things like that before, pah! But this time. We saw not one, not two, but sixteen individuals. How great is that? I’ve only ever seen two in the wild before and to see this many in one area was a real treat.

Of course it wasn’t all about the Koalas. The park itself was quite pretty, with a couple of gentle waterfalls, the odd bird, and it was green with little bursts of yellow, white and mauve wildflowers.

Another little walk, just around the back of the caravan park, led us to a group of Kangaroos just lazing around enjoying the day. Perhaps five full grown males in the group, I’m not sure how many of the younger ones were male, but the fact that there were so many males surprised me. I didn’t think the blokes hung around together like this. Anyone have any ideas?

We had seven days at Belair before moving to the Levi Adelaide Holiday Park, which is only fifteen minutes from the city. Civilisation here we come. First stop…Woodfired Pizza!

See you out there somewhere

On tow and on the go!