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January 17th - Port MacDonnell and Mount Gambier
When I last left you we had just got to Port MacDonnell and things were a little...well let's just say things had been better, and better they got.
We stayed two nights in Port MacDonnell courtesy of Jenny's gracious parents Ron and Joyce who lent us their beach home. It was literally right on the ocean (check out the view from the living room!) and the town was very quaint and enjoyable, it also provided us with two less nights of sleeping in the van which we had yet to do at this point. The day following our strict peanut butter sandwich diet we enjoyed lunch at a place called Periwinkles in town where I had a huge plate of prawns, fish, calamari and salad (all fresh from the ocean of course). I really wish I had taken a picture of the plate as it cost me about $12 Canadian and was truly a meal fit for a king.
We spent the day 20 minutes up the highway at a place called Mount Gambier. The big selling point of this medium sized town is Blue Lake. The picture below doesn't quite do it justice but it is this absolutely amazing blue lake (surprise!). No one really knows why it's so blue but it was formed from an old volcanoe and turns the brightest blue you have ever seen every summer. After touring around some of the other sinkholes and craters that were around the town we headed for dinner at Ron and Joyce's. They prepared a massive barbeque for us which was great. Their other daughter from Darwin was visiting with her three girls and they took us to see the possums that come out at night at one of the sinkholes before we finally headed back to the beach house for the night.
We stayed two nights in Port MacDonnell courtesy of Jenny's gracious parents Ron and Joyce who lent us their beach home. It was literally right on the ocean (check out the view from the living room!) and the town was very quaint and enjoyable, it also provided us with two less nights of sleeping in the van which we had yet to do at this point. The day following our strict peanut butter sandwich diet we enjoyed lunch at a place called Periwinkles in town where I had a huge plate of prawns, fish, calamari and salad (all fresh from the ocean of course). I really wish I had taken a picture of the plate as it cost me about $12 Canadian and was truly a meal fit for a king.
We spent the day 20 minutes up the highway at a place called Mount Gambier. The big selling point of this medium sized town is Blue Lake. The picture below doesn't quite do it justice but it is this absolutely amazing blue lake (surprise!). No one really knows why it's so blue but it was formed from an old volcanoe and turns the brightest blue you have ever seen every summer. After touring around some of the other sinkholes and craters that were around the town we headed for dinner at Ron and Joyce's. They prepared a massive barbeque for us which was great. Their other daughter from Darwin was visiting with her three girls and they took us to see the possums that come out at night at one of the sinkholes before we finally headed back to the beach house for the night. 
January 18th - Port MacDonnell to Port Fairy
We left the beach house enroute to a place called Port Fairy. On the way we decided to stop at this place we saw on the map called Discovery Bay. After driving down a dirt road, which actually wasn't much of a road for half an hour we gave up and turned around and instead discovered nothing. The drive turned out to be pretty rewarding however after we stumbled upon a place called The Crags.
Basically The Crags turned out to be a bunch of really cool rock formations that provided for some great pictures. We climbed over the "Do Not Cross This Rope" rope and headed down to the beach. We spent quite a bit of time there before we headed to Port Fairy.
After arriving in Port Fairy we got ourselves a campsite and proceeded to have our first night in the van. Life was squished.
1 comment:
stunning photographs once more, mister chubey.
and what a fabulous life you lead!
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