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and got a panoramic view of the city one of the finest panoramas I have seen equalled only by the view of Amiens from the top of the Somme valley. Adelaide is a city of gardens it is all garden and one would wonder where all its population of 200,000 people are tucked away. The surroundings are nothing out of the ordinary yet it has been made a fine city, the finest I have ever seen. Some peoples idea of cities are human warrens, like London or parts of Sydney even. If Sydneyites had a city as fine on their harbour their skite would waken the world. Next day we were taken on board the train to the S,A, National Park some miles out in the hills along the seacoast at Belair. The Park is a very nice one and here we were given a picnic and fed to nearly bursting point with pop and pastry. These picnics are organised partly by the Red cross and partly by the military, and are to give us a good time, and prevent as much as possible some of the men making asses of themselves with drink in the town. All cheer to the S,A,Ds who have done such good work ungrudgingly, time after time for the soldiers for we are not the only soldiers who call here, it is an everyday occurence. We left Port Adelaide on the 9th and steamed out into the ocean passing through Backstairs passage between Kangaroo island and the mainland. At Breakfast some of the Bugjuice imbibers were ready to eat the head off everyone except their tucker, this they toyed with and left. Some didn't come down to dinner, too busy reaping their wild oats I suppose. Wild oats have such wooly heads. Kangaroo island is in summer at any rate brown and dry looking. We passed close to the coast by Cape Otway and anchored in Port Phillip on the 11th. The Victorians Tasmanians and Queenslanders got off here. Little "Tassy" left us here. I remember him first in Netley hospital wounded in the same stunt as myself on the 31st so we had some