One of our fellow campers told us there was a free shower in
Portland so that was our first destination that morning.
We’ve been in Portland before and therefore we only stopped
at the Visitor Information Center to gather some brochures. We needed to do
some grocery shopping but as we knew we were crossing the interstate border we
decided to postpone that till after arriving in South Australia. The simple
reason; you can’t take fruit and veggies into another state as the Aussies are
paranoid about transferring diseases and pests. Fair enough I guess as they had
their share of this in the past.
Monique wanted to check out Nelson Lighthouse and it was
indeed very picturesque. The turquoise blue ocean made the view even prettier.
We decided to skip the rest of the touristic sights as we’d
seen them before and drove on to Mt Gambier. On our way there we stopped at Nelson where we prepared lunch whilst overlooking an inlet.Very pretty!
After lunch we had all our leftover fruit (bananas, apples, mandarins, and capsicum) as dessert as soon it was time to cross the interstate border. Being Dutch there was no way we would just trow that out!
Mt Gambier is well known for its volcanic landscape. The
Blue Lake is one of their touristic highlights. Half the year the lake has a
grey/greenish colour but during the warmer months the water turns bright blue
(which we’d seen a few years ago). The reason for its colouring is still not
known although most likely it involves the water warming up and the effect it
has on some substances in the water. We noticed the water wasn’t very blue yet,
just around the edges we saw that bright cobalt blue.
From here we drove to our campsite at Cockatoo Lake. Besides
the many birds that live there we were lucky enough to witness a stunning
sunset.
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