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Adelaide

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Yet again making use of airport WiFi to provide an update, this time on my way from Adelaide to Hobart in Tasmania, new territory for me.

Adelaide, as I expected it to be, was a quiet interlude in the trip spent mainly wandering around and relaxing. I did take a trip on the tram out to the beach at Glenelg, but no surfing for me, or indeed anyone else.

Other places of interest included the market, excellent cheese stall plus coffee and toast for breakfast one day, and the Botanic Gardens.  Also located the Bradman Museum at the Adelaide Oval, which they opened in the middle of building work for the recent Ashes Test.

Once in Tasmania, a hire car for a few days to travel around and then back yo Adelaide for a night before heading for Melbourne for Christmas!

India-Pacific (Perth to Adelaide)

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Boarded the India-Pacific for the approximately 41 hour journey from Perth to Adelaide across the Nullabor Plain, including the longest straight stretch of track to be found anywhere, all 297 miles (477 km) of it!

I had a single berth similar to that on the Ghan and Trans-Canada.

Left Perth on time for the first leg to Kalgoorlie, where we arrived at 23:30. I declined the tour of the pit and the town in the dark, a decision confirmed by comments of fellow passengers the next day!

Woke up the following morning and an early breakfast, the food on board is excellent, and soon after spotted the sign marking the start of the section of straight track.

Some 180 miles on we stopped for 30 minutes at the town of Cook. Once a railway town with a school, hospital and swimming pool, it now has just 4 inhabitants.

A further curiosity was the airfield at Forrest. This is now an emergency strip and the people who look after it offer a B&B for light aircraft pilots and passengers.

Arrived in Adelaide about 10 minutes early.