Saturday - Adelaide

After deciding to not put any alarm for this morning (after 2 fairly sleepless nights) we finally woke up at 10am!  Feeling much better after a good nights sleep (we had gone to bed at 7:30pm) we headed to the kitchen to make scrambled eggs on toast.

A very lazy morning on both of our parts, we finally made it out the hostel at midday, and decided to do a bit of a walking tour of Adelaide.  We wandered down Rundle Street, the main shopping street - which made Perth's shopping options look small in comparison!

Next stop Ayers Historic House, home to Sir Henry Ayers (back in the day), a notable Adelaide resident - whom Ayers Rock is named after. 

Then passing the University of South Australia, University of Adelaide, and venturing into the Museum of South Australia (where Joseph, they had some great Australian Dinosaur bones!! Hope you are better after falling off your chair!).  Next was the Migration Museum, which gave a great insight into the migration movement throughout the history of South Australia.

After a stint in the library sorting emails and researching the next leg of our trip we headed out to finish our walking tour.

We passed the impressive War Memorial and Parliament Houses, walking through the old Railway Station, which apart from still being a local terminal appeared to house a casino!

Out the back of the station we chanced upon some of the beautiful gardens that surround the central district of the City.  We walked along the River Torrens and wandered over to admire the impressive structure that was the Adelaide Oval.  On getting to the outlying walls Ben soon realised the gates were open, and on glancing in...there was a game on!  The opportunity proved to good to miss, so off we went in our best sneaky manner to watch a couple of overs at a local match.

Back on the road again we walked back along the River Torrens, passing some interesting birds, and then through the Botanic Gardens, before ending our walk where we started, back along Rundle Street.

Whilst walking back to the hostel we happened across a bar that was advertising happy hour, $5 a pint of Coopers Clear (which we later found out was a low carb lager) and had a sneaky pint before heading back for dinner at our hostel.