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Quorn, Australia
32° 20' S 138° 2' E
May 17, 2004 08:06
Distance 292km

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You know, you can tell a lot about people by their shoes.
I was a bit wary of the idea of piling into a four-by-four with eight strangers and a guide for a ten-day trip and presuming that everyone would get along. As soon as we got into the truck, I had a look at everyone's shoes, checking for the presence of high heels and impractical sandals. Happily, everyone was wearing sneakers or hiking shoes, so my hopes were high from the get-go.
As we pulled out of Adelaide, we introduced each other. Besides me and Matt, we had our guide Jim, Liz from England, Kathy from Canada (Kitchener, if you're curious), Diana, Fridi, and Eileen from Germany, Monika from Poland and Germany, Barbera from Ireland, and Barbara from Italian Switzerland. Everyone seemed nice, but it was the shoes that convinced me that we might not hate each other by day five.
Our first day was spent seeing a bit of the Flinders Ranges. We stopped at a fruit stand in Port Wakefield to stock up on fruit and veggies, at Port Germaine for lunch at what is apparently the longest pier in the southern hemisphere (interestingly, we visited one in New Zealand that makes that same claim), and viewing the view at Hancock's Lookout. It was cold, rainy and miserable during all of these activities, and we were all quite happy when Jim announced that we could stay in a hostel that night instead of camping.