Day 3 & 4 Perth - Adelaide

On the way from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island

Our camper

The plan for our third day was to go via Perth to Adelaide...but it came different.
The day started as the day before with an early wake up call at 4am. We went to the Singapore airport and flew to our stopover destination Perth (stopover should last for two hours) where we should get our domestic flight connection. On the immigration counter we had to queue up and the queue was really long, so that we had to wait for about 45 minutes.
Afterwards we proceed to the last check...a dog checked if we have any food or other prohibited items with us. I (Gerd) "forgot" a yellow mango which I bought in Singapore in my backpack and the dog was happy about his sucess to found the fruit...I'm not...
After some minutes and a precise instruction that it is not allowed to bring any food to Australia (I ticked on the immigration form already that I have no food with me) were we able to go on.
Finally we passed all checkpoints and had a look for the gate of the flight to Adelaide...without any sucess.
Some questions later we knew that we need to go to the domestic terminal via a shutte bus. We checked the time-schedule and the next bus was at the time of the take off of our flight.
So we took a taxi and it took about 15 minutes to the domestic "terminal", indeed that was not another terminal, it was antoher airport although the airportcode and name was the same!
We arrived 40 minutes prior take off at the airport and we get the information that we are too late, so we went to the qantas-counter and complained so that we got another flight next morning. The problem now was that we didn't had an accomadation in Perth, after some phonecalls we found a place to stay for the night in a quite crazy hostel. After a really nice but expensive dinner in Perth we went to bed in our too hot and sticky room.


Day 4  Adelaide

Another day with an early wake up at 4 am.
We need some time to get a taxi but finally we went to the airport and we arrived in Adelaide one day later than planned.
Here in Adelaide we picked up our camper and with our vehicle and first experiences on left-hand driving we went to the hostel of Julia, Tanja and Flo who want to join us on our trip to Melbourne.

Julia, Tanja and Flo

Our trip goes on with us five on the way to Kangaroo Island where we arrived in the evening after an one hour trip with the ferry.