Sunday
We crossed the border from Victoria to South Australia on Sunday Morning.I was expecting to see a big sign and a quarantine station with people checking to see if we were carrying any fruit with us( Not allowed fruit or veg into South Australia due to fruit fly) because Todd's parents had told us previously that they had been checked at the border but there was nothing except a big yellow bin and a sign telling us to dump our fruit.
Along the way to the Tourist Information centre we drove through a big cobweb which stuck to our arial on the car.There were other cars with cobwebs on their ariels as well and they were hanging off street signs, long strands of thick cobweb that blew halfway across the road.
When we were setting up at the Caravan Park a few streets away we looked up into the air and there were long strands of cobwebs floating everywhere.I have never seen anything like it before and I am quite dissapointed that I didn't get a photo.It was quite amazing. It reminded me of fairyfloss when it is being made before it is put onto the stick and it is flying around the sides of the machine.
I asked the lady at the reception desk at the caravan park about it and she said that she had not seen anything like it before but she had read something about Pakistan on the internet that when it flooded all the spiders went to the tops of the trees and made cocoons. She wondered if something similar had happened here because the cobwebs had blown across from the Murray where they had all the rain earlier in the year. The eggs had hatched and baby spiders were finding new homes.
MondayWoke up to a beautiful day with the town clock in the background chiming 7.00
We went and saw the Blue Lake today and did the Aquifer tour which took us to the water surface of the lake. The lake is in a crater of an extinct volcano and is the water supply for Mount Gambier. It is pumped to to storage tanks on the highest points and then it is gravity fed to city.
The lake is best seen in the summer months when it is the bluest. It starts to change colour this time of year to a grey colour.
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| Blue Lake |
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| Pump House |
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| The Aquifer tour |
Valley Lake
Vally Lake is another extinct Volcano near the Blue Lake but it is very different because we could drive down into it. It has an excellent playground for kids of all ages and a native reserve that we could explore at our own lesuire for a gold coin donation.
Umpherston Sinkhole
A sinkhole is where the roof of an underground cavern has collapsed to form a large hole.
Umpherston Sinkhole is very beautiful because they have turned it into a garden.
Mount Shank
On Wednesday morning we woke up to a very overcast and rainy day but we decided to climb Mount Shank anyway.(Mount Shank is another extinct volcano but it is further out of town than Blue Lake.)
We arrived at the carpark, donned on our rainproof jackets and started our trek. (A local dog decided to escort the kids to the top.) We had to climb 336 steps to the rim of the crater.
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| Mount Shank on the day we decided to climb it. (Covered in cloud. and raining) |
When we got to the top we saw that there was a track leading down into the bottom of the crater. Todd decided to walk down into the crater while the kids, the dog and I stayed at the top. The kids were getting a little worried because the clouds were closing in and the rain was getting heavier. They were yelling out to Todd to hurry up.
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| Todd walking down into Mount Shank |
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| Todd at the bottom |
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| Kids and the dog that joined them. |
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| Todd wringing out his socks after his walk into the crater. |
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| Mount Shank |
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| Walking back down Mount Shank the weather started to clear up. |
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