Adelaide Metropolitan Coast 2007 Segment 1
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Cyber Holidays films the Adelaide Metropolitan Coast 2007, segment 1. The following is the full text associated with the full length video segment.
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A sealed bitumen road enters St. Kilda from Port Wakefield Road, in the East. It is a small village sized town, with several houses, a hotel, a historical tram museum, and a boat ramp giving protected access to Gulf St. Vincent. There is car parking by the extensive play ground, from where you can see Norfolk Island Pine Trees, Housing, Sport Grounds, the 'Beach', Tidal Flats, and a sprawling Mangrove Forest. Across the channel, Port Adelaide, Outer Harbour and its Industrial Areas can be seen, eg. a Container Ship Port, and Cranes. A long Revetment (rock groyne / sea wall), and Channel Markers guide boaters away from Sand Bars. There is some revegetation and Signage around the play ground. At the Play Ground / Recreation Area, is Play Ground Equipment, a 'Pirate Ship', a 'Castle', trees and Lawns. The video was taken mid week, during business hours, thus the few children; it is much more popular on weekends.
The Mangrove Trail is to the South East, and has Interpretive Information Signage about the Salt Water Barker Inlet, its Grey Mangroves, Salt bush, and Samphire. Samphire is edible, and can be used as a salad vegetable. The Interpretive Centre charges a fee to see the Tidal Estuaries from its boardwalks when open. It sometimes sells delicious mangrove honey. Walk through mangroves seaward (until it becomes too sticky), and follow a small creek. See Birds, Swamp land, Pneumatopores, Mangrove Seeds, Crab Holes, Sea Shells, Flowers, Insects, Coastal Daisy, mangrove Creeks, and Lichen on plants. The mangroves have a sickly sweet, heavy, humid smell, and the mud smells like rotten eggs and sulfur when you break the surface; cuts sting. The Adelaide Tram Museum, near St Kilda, is open 12 - 5 on Sundays, and public holidays, and some Wednesdays during school holidays. It charges a small fee to enter, and sometimes ride the still working old electric trolleys, and trams. A short tram line and overhead power leaves the museum, and travels to St Kilda. By Cyber Holidays, Australia: cyberholidays.com.au