Melbourne – Adelaide

Past week (actually the week before that since I have not been able to post this earlier) has included a short stop at Melbourne which I already commented on my last post. Maybe Melbourne will show its true face to me next time. Anyway, I got on to Topdeck bus again, this time heading to Adelaide via Great Ocean Road. Great Ocean Road truly was great (although the weather was not). The scenery is beautiful and there are many good photo opportunities. However, my favorites were Twelve Apostles (quite naturally) and The Arch. We spend the night at the shiny and clean Port Campbell Hostel which had somewhat interesting solution of placing the toilets and showers on the same corridor with the rooms. It seemed to work quite nicely and I would imagine that also the cleaning and ventilation can be arranged more efficiently this way.

 

Finally from Warnambool we turned towards Grampians National park where we did a shorter walk (so called Pinnacle walk) and visited several viewpoints for scenery. Wildlife was very much present in form of several bird species and tens of Kangaroos which were hanging just outside of our nice Grampians Motel where we enjoyed a nice evening over some BBQ. Also the weather changed just overnight for the better since the temperature rose up to over twenty and the wind calmed down.

After Grampians we took a rather long drive to Adelaide where we arrived in the Friday afternoon just in time to have some dinner with my friend whom I met while traveling South America last year. I also attended to her father´s surprise birthday party the next day which offered me a good chance to socialize with some really nice Adelaideans.

Technical side note:

While driving I’ve been writing my journal and organizing my photos. The amount of data has grown at amazing pace (in this case around 25X) compared to the times of my first digital camera in 2005 when photos and videos of a 3 week trip took less than 600MB. Now I produce data around 5 GB per week even though I only have a regular pocket sized travel camera on me, I operate in jpg-format and I do relatively small amount of videos. Let’s see what is the regular size for a memory card in 2019. Anyone dare to guess?  Surely it can not be 128 GB, or can it?