sight seeing

Hello, hello,hello

Well it's now the other end of the day and we have had a lovely day all round.

We set off this morning first of all to go and see Port MacDonnell which turned out to be a lovely coastal port where a large fleet of fishing boats were moored in the quiet waters of the man made bay. Lobsters are predominantly what gets caught but even so we are told that if you try to buy them fresh from the boats they charge $30.00 per kilo. We didn't buy any, not that there were any boats around to buy them from. We did though walk along a manmade rock wall that sweeped around to create a large quiet bay. It was probably 1Klm in length and wide enough for a vehicle to be driven along it. We walked half of it only stopping because of a rock wall that we weren't prepared to tackle blocked our way.

From there we took a short drive along the coast, coming upon a couple of lookout places which we stopped at. One of them was quite steep, no very steep but we decided the view would be worth the effort of climbing back up the steep slope. And it was. We were actually at South Australia's southern most point. There was also a colony of fairy penguins but we didn't see any. They probably don't come out till night time as do the ones on Phillip Island.

From there I convinced Ken to take me to the home of Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was a quaint little sand stone place with an English country garden. When we returned to Mt Gambier we also stopped off at a monument to him that overlooks the Blue Lake.

On the road to the Blue Lake there is a large rock wall with turrets set in it at intervals. It overlooks the Blue Lake in one direction and mutton leg lake in the other direction. It was all built in one go. Some 1,000 men and 300 women worked till it was finished. The women made refreshments as the men toiled away at the building. Quite a mammoth task.

Finally this afternoon we picked up the old van and we are hooked up and ready to leave early in the morning. So it will be a couple of days before I post another blog.

Enjoy the pics

Love Ken and Lyn