Beachport

We left Keith in rather damp conditions with a heavy fog, but the day improved and we travelled in sunshine which always makes everything look so much better. We fulfilled another of my whims by calling into Mundulla for morning tea at the footy grounds. I remember going there for football many moons ago!  The area still has lovely big gum trees but we were surprised to see more grapevines. It was here Dennis noticed his trailer tyre looking worse for wear so they changed it for some peace of mind.

                               

We headed west towards the coast and at Kingston fuelled up the cars and had lunch with the big lobster!! 

                                

There was a tractor museum next to the lobster but unfortunately it was closed so Dennis missed out. We had a tour around Robe and as usual, it was very busy - and seems to have grown even more since we were last there. Time and erosion have caught up with the obelisk and no longer can you walk out to see it. The beach however, is as lovely as ever.

We arrived here at Beachport and set up supposedly so we’d have morning sun on our annexes - only trouble is, this morning there is no sun!! We were able to have our campfire - gee it makes a difference to our evenings. 

We did a drive around the town and saw the sandhills where we had fun tobogganing down:

The area where we all set up and had a great time is now deserted but we can still see in our minds,  the kids hurtling down that hill on their push bikes - and having contests to see who could get highest up that pine tree!! We’ve seen many cars come back a little dirty - obviously from the 4 wheel driving along the beach and sand dunes - it’s a very popular activity here.

We went as far south as South End which was larger than we thought with nice little sandy beaches and some camp spots out in the National Park which were secluded and would be good as long as your set up wasn’t too large as the sites were small. Because the day was cold and blustery we lashed out and enjoyed a lovely Asian lunch at this lovely restaurant overlooking the bay:

Nearly everyone has left this park so we virtually have it to ourselves now. After a big lunch we’ll be serving up a lighter dinner tonight 😜. Once again tomorrow we move on - we’ll head Penola way and I’d like to see the Coonawarra area then Dennis has arranged to see a tractor mate just out of Mt Gambier. Once we’ve looked around Mt Gambier, our tour of South Australia will end as we’ll head towards home. 

We seem to be scaring the rain away wherever we go as today was supposed to be wet here but there’s only been a couple of drops and now it’s quite sunny and nice. We hope we don’t scare the rain away from home. 

Hoping you all had a great weekend and we send our love.

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