Barossa Valley, South Australia

So sorry to disappoint all you wine buffs, but we didn't go to the Barossa for the wine!

Above you can see Honey Pie standing on the Whispering Wall at Barossa Dam. When we visited St Paul's Cathedral in London we went up to a Whispering Wall there too...but sorry to say, we found the Borossa Dam Whispering Wall much more acoustically endowed than St Paul's. If one person stood at one end of the wall and whispered into a tiny hole they could be clearly heard by someone else standing at the other end, one hundred metres off.

I had a conversation with someone called Blake...thanks Blake for the experience!

Another marvel of the area is the Herbig Family Tree which is a hollow red gum somewhere between three and five hundred years old. My nieces had visited the tree recently and were so excited to tell everyone that a family of sixteen lived in the tree. In actual fact Mr Herbig and his wife lived in the tree with the first of the children. The couple did eventually have sixteen children and lived in a small hut.

Other stops were to the Penfolds Cellar Door, Angas Park Fruit Company and Tanunda where I was able to do some toy shopping for our grand daughter at Barossa Toys toyshop.

Thanks to our tour guide and host, Barry, we were able to visit all these interesting places in the short space of a morning, then back to Gawler for a great lunch of fried rice and vegetables cooked by his generous wife Malti.

By this time the weather was looking more promising and we headed out early Sunday afternoon and began to make our way north.