Adelaide Day 3

A slow start today as this not being a public site you don't need to be off before 10am (and end up paying for another night.) I had a bit of a sort of the car and it's contents as stuff had spread every where over the last 3 weeks. The I drove down to 'the old house' which is the Original house from the Site and has been converted to to a bunkhouse and function centre. The building sleeps 60 and also has beautiful rooms downstairs which is often booked out for weddings and apparently make a nice income for the Scouts (it's booked up almost 2 years in advance!) Dennis the warden came down ad showed me around inside and we swapped a couple of badges and Campsite type stories – its the same all over no staff!!!) Eventually he got a call and had to go and I asked him how much and where to pay my fees, he just waved and said 'no worries' and drove off. Thanks Dennis!
I left the campsite and drove just down the road to Handorf which is the oldest German settled town in Australia, it was strange as I was expecting Germanic stlye buildings but they were mostly of the Australian style of low buildings with big veranda's and there were many little shops selling German style goods, proudly 'Made in Australia' very odd. I drove back into the Centre of Adelaide and went down to see the city itself which I hadn't yeat really seen. I parked up and walked the virtually the full length of Rundle Street which is the main Shopping Street and found the Scout Shop, In I went to get some goodies. I liked the look of the Australian Scout Leaders shirts but alas you have to be a registered Scout Australia Leader to buy one so I had to make do with an activity t-shirt and I bought a number of Badges as well and picked up a copy of the Lonely Planet New Zealand . I also found they were doing badge swaps so I had to return later as all my badges were back in the car at the far end of town.
I took a good walk around the city including 'The Garden of Unearthly Delights' which isn't as ba as it sounds but a section of the parkland wich hass been sectioned off to show loads of acts in the Adelaide Fringe Festival which is happening now, (A bit like the Edinburgh Festival) unfortunately the shows did not kick off till later in the evening so I took a drive down out of town towards the Airport and checked out where the Car Hire Return was for the following morning. finally I got to Jo's House again as she is only 10 minutes from the airport and cleaned out the Car and packed my bags before having a well earned beer that had been in my boot for a week because of the tablets (I stuck it in the freezer to chill it!)