{"id":10702,"date":"2018-03-25T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primarythinking.net\/wordpress\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:41:46","slug":"day-49-adelaide-to-penola-coonawarra-385km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/?p=10702","title":{"rendered":"Day 49 &#8211; Adelaide to Penola (Coonawarra) &#8211; 385km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide to Penola. Oh dear, we are heading to another wine region. <!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2955\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Day-49-Coonalpyn-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2955\" src=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Day-49-Coonalpyn-001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 49 &#8211; Coonalpyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2975\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Day-49-Rymill-Winery-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2975\" src=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Day-49-Rymill-Winery-021-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 49 &#8211; Rymill Winery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Somebody has to do it, poor us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">393 km journey with nice roads to start with, then a long winding road with side winds that made you feel like you were wrestling with a crocodile. This is a part of a big storm that is supposed to be hitting south east South Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rewarded by a sneaky taste at Rymill vineyard.\u00a0Rymill (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rymill.com.au\/?method=pages.showPage&amp;PageID=74B7F1B5-9292-26C2-456C-A6624545B79D&amp;originalMarketingURL=About-Us\/Our-Family-History\/The-Rymill-Family\">click for external link<\/a>) one of our favourite wines, that has a limited range of places to find, and limited range of wines to drink. We collected a map of the region and it&#8217;s a who&#8217;s who of the red wine big hitters. We have limited supplies from this area in WA so we are a little excited.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2969\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Day-49-Father-Woods-Park-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2969 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Day-49-Father-Woods-Park-015-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 49 &#8211; Father Woods Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some local carvings on the way and our 1st silo art of South Australia. Coonalpyn is a small town\/street about 200km outside of Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>On our journey, we stopped at Father Woods Park (<a href=\"http:\/\/monumentaustralia.org.au\/themes\/people\/religion\/display\/111583-father-julian-tenison-woods\">click for external link<\/a>). A collection of wooden sculptures in thanks to Father Julian Tenison Woods who served in this region from 1857-67.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Penola, the home of Mary MacKillop. She had spent some time working in the town. She was canonised as Australia&#8217;s first saint on the 17th October 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Picked up some supplies for cheese and wine in our room. Picnic in tonight. Time to test one of the red wines.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0 other WA team play their 1st game of the season tonight, we hope they fair better than our Dockers.<\/p>\n<p>We have 2 nights here before we head off to Victoria, looks like we have plenty of vineyeards on our doorstep to visit tomorrow. Cheers to us tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide to Penola. Oh dear, we are heading to another wine region.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/?p=10702\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,508,458],"tags":[478,479,480,481,482],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-more-link","post-10702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorised","category-road-trip","category-south-australia","tag-coonalpyn","tag-father-woods-park","tag-mary-mackillop","tag-penola","tag-rymill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10723,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions\/10723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freolongblack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}