Thursday, February 26. Warm. 32 C.
We had a bit of a bumpy night but as we got closer to Adelaide it became smooth as glass. We had a light breakfast in the Neptune Lounge and next thing we knew we were on a coach tour compliments of our Travel Agents group.
It was six hours, which is a bit long for us, but was very interesting and broken into three main components. The first was a visit to The Aboriginal exhibit in the museum of Adelaide. My initial response was Oh no, here we go with the Aboriginal thing! However, the exhibits were exceptionally well done, as good or better than The UBC Museum of Anthropology. Australia, as I mentioned earlier, has gone through what Canada has in trying to make amends to its native population for the earlier mistreatment of its Natives. Well done indeed.
Next we went to the National Wine Institute of Australia, at the University of Adelaide. There we had a rather intensive session, in detail, of more than the average person needs to know about wine. Then we went and had a detailed sampling of sizeable portions of four wines., two white and two reds. Following that we had a substantial smattering of cheeses and other nibbles, and wine, and called it lunch.
Filled with that, we made the quick transition to the Adelaide Botanical Gardens where we wandered through some interesting areas including the Palm Greenhouse. We have been there before, without the wine beforehand, and spent much more time there. It is beautiful.
We then went back to the ship, rested and got cleaned up, went to dinner in the dining room, then to bed somewhat later. The ship sailed from Adelaide at 10:30 by which time we were sound asleep.
A Wonderful Day!
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