Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The Adelaide Hills

This is a picture of the hills between Murray Bridge and Adelaide, and this is when there has been a drought. It's just beautiful countryside driving between the country and the city. Murray Bridge is the fourth largest it city in Australia, but only has a population of 19,000. The bulk of the population in Australia is on the coast in the large cities. The entire country has a population of 20,450,000. The US has over 300,000,000.





This is the view from Chris and Murray's back yard.
This is the Jarvis' dog - Jess.
This is Jay, my sister Megan's youngest son.
This is Riley, the middle son.

And this is Sam, the oldest.
My dad, Murray, drives a milk truck, which picks up milk from dairies all in the southeast and takes it to Adelaide or the depot in Murray Bridge, depending where it's needed. It's a double hauler and is just ENORMOUS. You can tell more in the second photo.

The day before we left, we went to lunch with dad in a pub in Tailem Bend, which is about 20 minutes from Murray Bridge, so named because there is a bend in the Murray River there.
View of Murray River from the patio at the Tailem Bend Pub.


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