Well I finally feel like I've really joined the ranks of Adelaide dwellers because now I too can say "I've been to Victor Harbour". Yesterday Princess CB, Archie Girl, Sharlock and myself piled into my car for what I am led to believe is an Adelaide tradition, the day trip to Victor. As I was a Victor neophyte I was pretty laid back about plans for the day and thought I'd just go with the flow. I figured that whatever we ended up doing it would be a quality day because all of the people that were in the car are good friends and the conversations were bound to be entertaining. I like to drive and they all like to be driven so that worked out really well too.
So off we went, arriving there just in time for lunch at the pub followed by a walk over and around Granite Island, carefully avoiding the leftovers from the horses drawing the tram across the bridge for the other tourists, we thought it was more fun to walk. As we were climbing up the stairs behind the kiosk we looked and saw what we though were whales or some sort of sea life out to sea. As we climbed higher we realized that they were rocks being covered and uncovered by the waves but not before we had convinced a number of other people that they were whales by staring intently and commenting. We walked on around the island and even saw some Little Penguins huddling in their burrows until nightfall.
After Granite Island we got into the car and drove up to "The Bluff" (Rosetta Head) but as it was raining by then we though we would just sit in the car, look at the view and talk which suited our mood just fine. We managed to sit in the car at 3 different parking areas and thoroughly enjoyed every minute.
After that it was getting dark so we decided to head home. Trying to avoid the traffic we ended up on the wrong road going to Cape Jervis and had to backtrack till we found the right one through Yankalilla. About half way back I started vaguing out as I had been concentrating on the narrow twisty road and so we stopped for coke and chocolate. After that we went back to Sharlock and Archie Girl's place for Pizza where Archie Girl looked after Princess CB's feet which had been rubbed raw by her shoes whilst walking. The girls added looking after feet to the list of things that a future husband had to have. We then watched The Princess Bride which Princess CB hadn't seen and we went home. All in all a totally chilled out day with 3 other quality people and many laughs and great conversations.
Some things I learned:

• "This car is not being driven by a committee"
  
• Sharlock and Archie Girl mark hard when it comes to scoring out of 10 ;-)
  
• Victor Harbour is more the idea of the place rather than the place itself, there didn't seem to be that much there but somehow that didn't matter.
  
• Quality time spent with quality people is amongst the most fulfilling things on this Earth. It doesn't matter what you do, it's the fellowship that matters.
  

Thanks guys for a fantastic day, I hope we can do it again sometime soon.

posted by Peter at 8:01 PM