A New Side of Australia (5/30/23)

Bob and I enjoyed our wine tasting Monday afternoon at the Seppeltsfield Winery. It was a quiet day there, as we were the only visitors, so we were able to have a good chat with our pourer.

Driving to the winery past the 2,000 palms that line the road to the site.
We learned from our pourer that these were planted
during the Great Depression to help keep their employees working at a time when May wineries were forced to lay off their staff.

Walking from the car park to the cellar door

This morning we left Tanunda to drive back to the Adelaide airport to fly to Perth in Western Australia. We left Adelaide a little late, at about 12:30 p.m Adelaide time and arrived in Perth about 3:40 p.m. Perth time. Oddly, Perth is 1.5 hours behind Adelaide.

Perth is the capital and largest city of Western Australia with a population of 2.1 million. It is located along the Indian Ocean. For our Scottish friends, it was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, a town that Bob and I are not familiar with. It is the regional headquarters of several mining operations.

We have moved beyond the marathon and are back in Bob 60th birthday celebration mode. We are members of the Marriott hotel program, so have free hotel stays in the Westin Hotel in Perth while we are here, but Bob had requested (and we got) an upgrade to a suite. We are now feeling quite pampered and may end up having a relaxing stay in Perth by spending some time in the hotel .😀