Erwin and Dorits' Endless Summer

Exhaustet from driving a distance which could have been from Aachen to Lissabon in two days we were craving for some nice beaches,crowded promenades with little cafes. We headed straight to Streaky Bay. Everything else but what we wanted, so we kept driving heading to Adelaide. Another warm overnight stop on a carpark alongside the road, 150 km north of Adelaide near a place called “Snowtown”…;o)

The next morning we arrived in Adelaide and got blown away by a heat wave. 39 degrees in the city, we headed straight for the beach. The sea was as plane as a lake, but refreshing anyway. After one hot night we decided any tourist activities in Adelaide were pointless regarding our pace of a turtle which we adjusted to the heat.

We headed down south, to some mellow waves as the surf guide calls it. We drove 80 km through beautiful landscape and arrived in Goolwa. The waves seemd good, two surfers in the water, hot, we took our boards straight away. To our surprise even the water was warm and the first time we weren’t the only persons surfing in shorty’s and boardshorts.

To our exicitement of surfing after being in the car for ages, two dolphines joined us. They were playing around us not even a meter away from us. They were diving underneath our surfboards, droping in on our waves and made us forget all our previous days in the car.

Unfortunaltly the next day the swell was gone. We stayed one more day and decided to drive further to the south. Yesterday evening we arrived in Portland, and were shocked by the fact that it was cold and clowdy. We had forgotten the fact that we had driven for 600 km and weather might be different, even though you are still in the same country.

So today we prepaired ourself for a walk to a seal colony at Cape Bridgewater. We wore our long jeans and jumpers, but as we were walking for 30 minutes it got warmer and warmer and it turned out to be a beautiful day, luckily not as hot as in Adelaide.