day three - Kingston SE to Mt Gambier

Although it rained in the night, the day dawned sunny if not a little cool. It turned out the be the only dry day of our journey and it was brilliant. We took heaps of photos along the Limestone Coast. After having a look around Kingston we headed off to Robe which is a lovely little place on the coast. I could tell that it would be humming in the summer and was very happy to be there in the off season. After tooling about we found a lovely little bookshop/cafe called 'the Whistling Fish'. Nice idea in a lovely setting but the guy who ran it was somnabulistic and a tiny bit odd. When I asked if he made the coffee's he said 'oh so you want a coffee?' As always on the trip, the coffee was less than lovely.

the obelisk at Robe

The Whistling Fish

We then proceeded to Beachport along the alternative route that took us through the Little Dip national park which was interesting. It was blissfully sunny so we made the most of that and did lots of walking and outside things. Jonty had a swim in the Pool of Siloam which is 7 times more salty than the ocean.

Beachport...tiny in the back ground

below...little lake on the way from Robe to Beachport in the Little Dip national park

The Pool of Siloam
From there we travelled through to Mt Gambier for the evening and stayed in another 'Jayco' onsite cabin thing which totally did my head in with the dark fake wood on every, and I mean every surface. We saw the Blue Lake and raced off to the 'Umpherston Sinkhole' before dusk and it was gorgeous. There we came across the tame possums.

See next entry from more photos