Leaving Meningies, we drove for almost a hundred miles along
a 1 ½ mile wide ‘barrier island” through Coorong National Park. Our path then
took us thru Langhorne Creek, another Aussie wine area.
The town of Mount Gambier has volcanic origins, and there is
a large crater here in town that holds fresh water. It is the town’s source of
it in fact. It also is full of limestone caverns, which sometimes erode over
time, the top falls in, and you get a lovely little spot recessed from the
summer heat that has been turned into a garden.
And there is where we found a good spot to fund your hoo-hoo in case you need a new one or lost your old one!
We crossed into the state of Victoria and set our watches 30
minutes forward (yes, 30, not 60!), and drove past the diary farms of southeast
southwest Victoria. We passed
picturesque little coast towns like Port Fairy, and then onto another, Port
Campbell, where we spent the night.
We set up camp and walked the one block into town and had
wonderful seafood. Linda’s calamari was
julienned into 1/2 inch thick and wide
slices about 3 inches, long, was lightly coated in corn flour, then flash
fried. It was the most tender calamari
ever. I had the Thai shellfish in
coconut milk. Yum.
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