Adelaide Oval and Glenelg

Wed 29th September: Did the tour of the Adelaide Oval. My tour guide was a volunteer dressed in a colourful cricket jacket and tie. Most informative. The ground is supposed to be on of the top surfaces in the world. A new stand is being built so it turned into a tour of the almost one hundred year old scoreboard. Massive structure that cost more than the price of a house to build ninety nine years ago. A novel fundraising idea they have is that you can ‘purchase’ a picket from the picket fence. They put your name on it and after twelve years you can keep it. I noticed John Bromby, Premier of Victoria had one. Don Bradman the greatest cricketer of all time played there for most of his career and devoted 46 years to the club as an administrator. He attended 1,763 meetings in that time. Not a lot of people know that! Finished with a visit to the Don Bradman Museum. Top class.
Back to base for a bit of grub and then headed off in the car to Glenelg, the St. Kilda of Adelaide. Beautiful seaside town but the beaches were deserted as it was only 19 degrees. While driving around I noticed that there was a Lacrosse tournament on and stopped to see what it was about. It is like hurling with a net on the end of your caman. The players wore helmets also and protection for their arms. The goals were like hockey goals. They love their sport-all sports- here. Spent a few hours walking and reading on the beach. Nice relaxing day and early night, which is good as I have a long drive ahead of me tomorrow.