Adelaide: the end of the road trip

The final haul to Adelaide was the closest I've gotten so far to the "outback." The landscape transformed, dramatically after the great ocean road: gum trees disappeared, the the landscape flattened out and the soil turned red.

The towns became far and in-between. We were lucky enough to bump into the 2003 best medium town winner, Kingston though it wasn't much of a town at all, just a gas station and a few shops.

We stopped for lunch at "the heart of the Coorong" in Salt Creek. It was was truly an outback town. Beside the restaurant/gas station flew the two official Australian flags:

 

Salt creek is aptly named because it has pools of salty water all around. We stopped by a few after lunch to take photos:

We stopped for gas in Callington, a suburb of Adelaide before heading into the city.

Finally we were at our destination, the city of churches - Adelaide.


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Adelaide was an interesting city in its architecture; almost like a wild west town but with Palm trees, no guns and friendly people. We spent little time in the city and instead traveled to the nearby beach where we watched the sun go down and said our goodbyes.

 

As I sat in the sand dunes overlooking the beach and the sun began to set, I reflected on my journey, all that I saw on this ten day trip (February 14th - 24th), all that happened; it was truly an experience and I was sad to be in the dusk of this adventure. The sunset over the crest of the oceans horizons was one of my last experiences on this road trip, and one of the most rememberable. It was sad to say goodbye to my traveling comrades, but the vast expanse that laid before me as the sun dropped below the sea, gave me hope and excitement for the future horizons and sunsets to come.