6th October-Mt Gambier

Drove from Adelaide through the hills and over the Murray Bridge stopping at Tailem Bridge to buy some fresh bread and some eggs from a local man who had lived in the area for 52 years since arriving as a boy from the UK in 1952.

This is the mouth of the Murray which opens into Lake Alexandrina , had it been a warmer day we might have taken the ferry across to Wellington. Drove along the coastal road which goes through the Coorong the National Park which is a series of inland waterways,flat marshy lakes with sand hills and then the ocean. Stopped at the big lobster at Kingston SE (lobster capital)for lunch and also bought half a fresh lobster for our dinner. Went along the coastal road going through to Robe which we didn’t recognise at all due to all the new developments that had taken place. Continued on to Mt Gambier staying at the Kalganyi caravan park, where it was cold and wet and quite late so we went to the RSL for our dinner.

Driving  through these areas it was mostly flat with huge pine plantations, some of which had recently been logged and then reseeded and dairy farms which all looked really good due to the amount of rain that had fallen over the last few months.