meander

the map for today's section of mawson trail promised a big descent into the barossa valley but unfortunately there were some rolling hills to content with first. we climbed through a number of vineyards including steingarten which was impressively perched on a rocky hill overlooking the barossa.

as we crested the last hills to look out over the barossa, we felt that we'd earnt the view via our climbing efforts of the last couple of days.

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at this point we also saw a number of lambs that had been born earlier in the morning and ewes still birthing. quite a cool experience.

the descent into the barossa was very slow as we negotiated the rocky trail and then through some more rolling hills until we got to tanunda. we were all ready for first lunch and had some food at the first bakery we found. a few km north we made our way to stockwell where some friends live, renovating an old stone cottage.