Adelaide, South Australia

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We had smooth sailing from Kangaroo Island! We arrived in Adelaide on time. We are docked on the port side at the Outer Harbor. We had a musical welcome from the terminal building for those on the port side. We had to smile when we heard/saw it as we exited Serenity as we remembered it from 2006.

Crystal ran a complimentary shuttle to Rundle Mall at King William St., a convenient location. It ran from 9 am to 5:30 pm at the top and bottom of the hour. The ride took from 45 to 55 minutes. Traffic is heavy. There is a train station right across from the cruise terminal building and as we were near the train station in town we planned to pay to ride it back. When we got there though we only had 1 minute for departure and the next shuttle would leave before the next train. We walked on to arrive at the shuttle queue a couple of minutes before the next shuttle back at 3:30 pm.

We had only one thing planned to do here today. Ride Segways. We had spent time in Adelaide before on 2 previous trips and wanted to do something different. We booked a 1 pm Adelaide Riverbank Segway Tour with Segway Sensation online months ago. It was $201.76 AUD for the 2 of us for a 1 hour tour. We can highly recommend them. They had a well planned and executed tour that was safe and enjoyable. It was the first time we'd spent any real time along the River Torrens and it is a delightful and beautiful area of Adelaide. There is a lot of construction going on along there that was new since 2017. The very expensive and overdue Royal Adelaide Hospital had completed construction and opened since our 2017 visit.

We were on the 2nd shuttle in to town at 9:30 am. We wandered the Rundle Mall for a few blocks and shopped some in Woolworth's before heading toward the riverfront. We arrived at Regattas for a pizza right at 11:30 am as they opened. It was $21 AUD for a NY Pepperoni pizza that was the perfect size to share. We walked next door to Sage Deli (same website and ownership as Regattas) for some dessert. We found what looked like a scoop counter filled with small jars of Gelista gelato. We each had one and they were good.

After the Segway tour, we just walked back and returned on the shuttle to the ship. We were gone from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. We read the Waterside menu when we got back and quickly made a reservation for Silk tonight.

We move the clocks back another 1/2 hour tonight. The next 2 days we cruise across the Great Australian Bight. Fingers crossed for calm seas. If we get them, it'll be a first for us. We've crossed twice before, once in each direction and it was bad each time. We'll see tomorrow. We are supposed to sail at 9 pm tonight and I expect we'll be asleep by the time we reach open water.


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