Red Elephants on Tour 2016: Adelaide day 1

Adelaide - Day 1

With so much to do in Adelaide we are spoiled by choice. As today’s forecast was for showers we decided we needed an indoors day.

So the Red Elephants headed to Port Adelaide. This was a request from the junior read Red Elephants who are airplane buffs. They had picked up a pamphlet for the Aviation Museum. The highlight being an F111. We have visited many Aviation type museums in our travels over the years at Temora, Williamstown, Nowra, Longreach and the Airplane hall in our own War Memorial. At the Port Adelaide Aviation Museum we where meet at the door by a couple of old fellas, we then entered their hanger that was filled with all sorts of planes including the prized F111. Sporty Elephant was in here element and was clicking away with her camera. Afterwards we all agreed that the best Plane type museum we have been to is the one at Williamstown. Could this be because they have the really fast jets (F18’s) flying overhead?

Keeping with the transport theme we then visited the SA Maritime Museum. This is housed in an old warehouse with bare beams and you really felt like you where in an old ship. On entering the museum there was an old Ketch you scramble over and explore. Let me tell you our caravan is luxrary compared to the captain’s quarters on this Ketch. The museum had an interesting collection of figureheads you know those wooden carved heads they had at the front of the old wooden ships.

The junior Red Elephants even got to sample sailing cabins on board ships from the 1830’s, 1910’s and late 1940’s. We found treasure and learnt all about ships GPS systems in the olden days, finding longitude and latitudes on the globe.