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Final Parade

Jason Benz — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 05:13:54 +0000

This is the Cambridge University Eco Racing teams car, Helia, leaving the centre of Adelaide a few moments ago for the final parade of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. It has been an epic race of 3000km from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Adelaide in South Australia. It has been an honour to share the road with these amazing solar-powered cars and to meet the teams along the way. Their engineering and imagination have been awe-inspiring.

I will be continuing my journey east to the Blue Mountains but not before I have caught up on a week of sleep.

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Solar Ute

Jason Benz — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:02:31 +0000

This Solar Ute is the most unique vehicle at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. I arrived in Adelaide just after the last team crossed the finish line. Fortunately, the lovely people from Tafe SA were good enough to give their car a push so I could get this photo. When leaving Darwin this prime mover was attached to a 7-metre trailer with 14 square metres of solar cells which provides an extra 2.8kw of power to the Ute. Weighing in at 1.4 tonnes it is the heaviest and longest solar automobile. The team overcame many hurdles to get here. During track testing, they blew up one of the motor controllers so the 11.5-metre articulated vehicle was being pulled by just one wheel. This created so much heat that during the race they built an ingenious cooling system with a CO2 fire extinguisher.

I have a few repairs of my own to do on the van before heading back to the Blue Mountains.

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Festival Centre

Jason Benz — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:30:27 +0000

This is the Adelaide Festival Centre in South Australia reflected in the waters of the River Torrens at night.

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Rundle Lantern

Jason Benz — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:33:54 +0000

This is the Rundle Lantern in the centre of Adelaide in South Australia. It has 748 panels which are illuminated with solar powered LED’s which can produce millions of colours. You can even create your own animation to be shown on the building.

Adelaide Station

Jason Benz — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:16:58 +0000

This is Adelaide train station in South Australia. The station shares this building with Adelaide Casino.

Tree Roots

Jason Benz — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:24:12 +0000

I am not sure what type of tree this is. If you have any idea please leave your answers on a comment. I took this shot in the Botanic Park in Adelaide, South Australia. To process this image I used a 50% High Pass/Overlay layer to bring out some extra detail in the tree and leaves.

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Adios Adelaide

Jason Benz — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:19:05 +0000

We have fixed our van and are preparing to leave Adelaide tomorrow morning. We have had a great time here and have been made most welcome by Val’s friend Blan who took us for a wonderful dinner at The Hackney Hotel. We can highly recommend the Windsor Caravan Park as everybody was really helpful and the setting is lovely. We are looking forward to the Great Ocean Drive down to Melbourne.

Adelaide Skyline

Jason Benz — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:53:29 +0000

This is the Adelaide Skyline looking across the River Torrens. This is similar to the first blog I posted in Australia of the Perth Skyline. We have decided to spend an extra week in Adelaide as our van needs some further maintenance and it makes sense to fix it while we are in a city. We are waiting for a new air in-take hose to arrive from Sydney and our 3 way fridge only seems to work on gas. 12v and 240v no longer chill so its more like a 1 way fridge at the moment. The weather is very warm too.

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Adelaide Fringe

Jason Benz — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:57:59 +0000

We have been living on the edge of Adelaide for a few days now. As with any city at festival time, accommodation and parking becomes more scarce. I have done my first big service on our van as we have done 10,000km since buying it in Perth. With help from generous fellow travellers I changed the oil, oil filter, air filter, points, spark plugs and generally lubricated the van. It’s running so smooth now it keeps going after I take the key out! This problem is yet to be solved. Any advice? Yesterday we moved from the free campsite at Parham 70km out of town to a paid site 10km from the city at Glenelg. This is partly due to the overwhelming need for a shower and also to be on a bus route into the city. We have been into Adelaide twice now. One quick drive through and walk through the Botanical gardens and last night for some food and to check out the Fringe. Tonight we hope to go to Womadelaide to celebrate my birthday.