These are some of the pictures we have so far from our
vacation. I had to compress them heavily. Internet access
is extremely expensive when it is available. Maybe
we will have better access in Sydney. To visit the pages from the second half of the trip visit this link:
http://homepage.mac.com/alanwolf/Vacation_p2/index.html
 Over_the_Pacific |
 View from our room |
 Adelaide Botanical Gardens |
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flew into Adelaide via Chicago, Los Angles, and then Melbourne.
It was a long, but uneventful flight. Our room was nice, but the view was not too good. It was much nicer on our return from Kangaroo Island. Upon arrival walked around city. We walked through their Botanical Gardens. |
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 Magpie |
 Wollemi pine discovered 1994 |
 National Wine Center |
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are these magpies every where. This pine tree was only known from
fossils until 1994, when it was found in some deep ravines in New South Wales. We then visited the National Wine Center. |
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 Phylloxera louse |
 Shiraz grape vines - National Wine Center |
 Penfold's Winery main headquarters |
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is a model of a root parasite (at many times its real size) that destroyed many of
the vineyard in the US and Europe. It is not yet known in Australia. These are flowering Shiraz vines. The grape variety that maybe best know from Australia. The next day we took the bus and visited the Penfold's Winery headquarters that is just outside Adelaide. |
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 Beth in front of winery |
 Penfold's Magill restaurant - want to go next time |
 Grape vines that produce Grange |
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tasted many of their wines and walked around the grounds. This is
a very nice restaurant, we did not have time to go there this trip, but we hope to next time we visit. Last, these are the vines that form a portion of Australia's most famous wine, Penfold's Grange. We did not get to taste that unfortunately. |
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