CAMERA CAPERS

 With my two sisters. Pauline and Emma with Peter driving us, we all took a trip to the Barossa Valley and had an overnight stay in an hotel.  These are some of the places we visited, although I have not recorded all of the names.  We had a great time. We stopped for tea and cake at Maggie Beer's.  Magggie Beer is a well-known Australian TV Cook. A beautiful dam which we were able to walk around Turtles in the dam There was a small exotic bird enclosure This peacock was walking outside an enclosure Eventually, he displayed his beautiful fan feathers This red gum tree was the first Australian home of Friederich Herbig who lived there with his wife Caroline and the first two of their 16 children.   As the family grew Friederich Herbig built a .two room hut nearby The tree is estimated to be 500 years old with a height of 24 metres and a diameter of seven metres. Barossa Bush Chapel On our way home, we stopped off at The World's Largest Rocking Horse.  It...

 I had a special birthday last August, and Pauline and Peter treated me to a lunch trip on the River Murray on the Paddleboat Captain Proud.   It was a wonderful trip and a most memorable day.  We had called at Murray River - the town on the river bank - a week or so before our boat trip, so the first few photos are from that visit.  The River Trip The Captain Proud Many thanks to Pauline & Peter for a most memorable trip. This is Part 8 of my trip to Australia 2023 - for Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, see 'Archive' on the left panel.