Saturday, came down to breakfast to find 200 blonde airheads in full squawk in the lobby. Turns out there's a skin care conference on. As the elderly Aussie in the queue for the unhealthy breakfast choices muttered darkly " hubby won't be getting his tea tonight". The spirit of the 50s alive and well in South Australia, then.

We ate at an Italian last night, outside given the weather had improved. At the next table were a man and woman, with passers-by pausing to wish him good luck for tomorrow. One called him Mr Parnell so, guessing that might be his name, I googled him when we got back. Turns out he was Mark Parnell, the first Green representative in SA to be elected to the State Legislature, whose term was up and was hoping to be re-elected. Obviously his main support base is the festival-attending, Italian-food-eating demographic.

Went to the zoo this afternoon to see the giant pandas. The picture shows Wang Wang, the male of the pair, who conveniently strolled across to me when he saw the camera.

Tomorrow after lunch we're flying to Canberra, for one night, after which we're driving down to Surf Beach. More anon