Hemmablind II
Fall (or re-fall) in love with Adelaide with me. The second in a series of posts combating home blindness. A collection of photos from and around Adelaide.
The second part of the series where I try to re-fall in love with Adelaide. You can read the first part here. This was about swimming spots, mostly - something that is important to me. The mental reset I get from jumping in water is remarkable.
Then there's spending time in nature, in the hills and bush - that's what this is going to be about. Adelaide is nestled between the coast an a range of hills/mountains called The Adelaide Hills. There are areas of the hills that are still relatively wild, and they offer amazing views out over the city and our coastline.
The header image of this post is from an old workplace - on many of my rides to and from work I'd detour 100 metres away from my route to look at that view. Arriving at work I'd see the sun rising on Adelaide from over the hills, sunlight moving slowly down the tall buildings as the sun rose. Departing work, I'd see the sun set over the coast. It made for amazing bookends to the workday.
Mount Osmond, pictured above, has a well worn walking trail - The Pioneer Women's Trail - that was originally used by the women of Hahndorf, a village on the other side of the range, to bring produce into the city markets. These days it's a great place if you want to meet dogs to pat.
It's a pretty mellow walk in terms of gradient. The views over the city and the bush are stunning.
There are plenty of other beautiful walks - this is just south of Adelaide at Sturt Creek:
If you want to leave the car at home, you can also ride into the Adelaide Hills. Norton Summit Road is hugely popular with cyclists, and the drivers are generally very patient (or avoid the road completely).
Once you get past Norton Summit, it becomes undulating and it's possible to not only hunt out gorgeous gravel roads, but you can also find some ice cream and sorbets made with locally grown berries.
If you want some thing a bit more wild, you can hop on a mountain bike and see the Adelaide Hills that way.
That will do for now.
The next post will remain in the Adelaide Hills, and focus on the beautiful spring-time wild flowers. Like this:
I think this little project is working. Hello Adelaide 😍.