
Valley wine-growing region, forty minutes from downtown Adelaide (when the stoplight god is happy with me), and twenty minutes from the coast of the St. Vincent Gulf. It is flat as a pancake here, and there are several market gardens down the road. The hills are ten minutes away. They are rolling, lush, grassy, and green for months longer than down here.
![]() Adelaide Hills in the Spring
In the Barossa, I can look around, and if I don't look too hard, I could swear I was in the wine country of Sonoma County, where I come from. The hills look like Santa Rosa, and from a distance, the gum trees look like the scrub oaks of California. I can get in my car, and in fifteen minutes, I can look out and see nothing but wheat fields and the occasional sheep. It is beautiful when it is green in the winter, but that is short-lived. Yet, the dry, yellow-and-gold wheat crops are inspiring as well.
![]() The Barossa Valley
![]() Favorite beach in South Australia
![]() Typical view down on the Adelaide Plains
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5. "Cooper"
6. "The Team"
7. "Missy"
11. "Nemo's Death"
14. "The Drought"
16. "Hamilton"
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