Port Adelaide Street Art

Arriving early, I picked up my rental car and headed to Port Adelaide. I haven’t visited this part of Adelaide before, and it has a few museums I want to check out later in the morning. As a heritage area, I thought it would be an okay place to wander while I waited for the museums to open. I parked at a nearby Coles, assuming parking would be difficult at the port itself, and walked down.

The area around the port was dead quiet when I arrived at 8:30 a.m. I could have saved the 5-minute walk and parked by the dockside. Oh well, need to keep my steps up. I’d seen on Google Maps a few mural streets and graffiti walls in the area, so I started by checking them out. I do like a bit of street art, and there were a few good ones here, and some average ones that were more like just graffiti.

There are quite a few bars and pubs around, and the occasional smell of piss or vomit suggests the area might have had some Friday night action. Being a heritage area, there are some nice old buildings, although the waterfront is a little dull, other than the lighthouse.

After a little walk, I decided to grab breakfast number 2.5 and ordered an açai bowl from a café a few blocks back from the port. It wasn’t bad, and it gave me a break to write this before the museums opened up. I probably wouldn’t rush back to see the street art here, but it was nice enough. Maybe when stuff opens around here, it’ll have a more alive vibe to the place.Read more