To Mt Gambier:

We left Coorong National Park in blustery conditions and headed east. We checked a free campsite called The Granites which was right beside the sea but it was far too windy to consider staying. We pressed on to Kingston SE where we checked out the local fish shop on the jetty. We had been told to try Coorong Mullet and it was delicious!!
It was very very windy in Kingston and especially out on the jetty. The caravan park was on the foreshore and very exposed so we checked out a free camp which was near the beach and was supposed to be sheltered. We found that it was still very windy and we were being sandblasted so we decided to head inland to maybe escape the wind.
With a tail wind we made good progress and finally ended in Millicent which is about 50 klms from Mt Gambier. Brian used to manage a service station here years ago.
We found a lovely caravan park on the edge of town overlooking the paddocks. It was still windy and rainy but not nearly as bad as on the coast.
We bought some fresh Coorong Mullet and some garfish in Kingston SE which I cooked that night and it was delicious.


It was a nice day the next day so we decided to stay another day there as the CP was nice and very reasonable. We went for a drive to Southend on the coast, which is a small bay where Brian used to keep the first boat that he built many years ago. Unfortunately the boat lost its mooring and was wrecked so there were lots of memories for him.



We then went onto Beachport, a lovely old seaside place with some very old buildings including a very old pub and a museum.
There is a large jetty of course and lots of crayfish boats are moored in the bay as crayfishing is one of the main industries here, The sea was very blue (sunshine at last) so it was a pretty scene.



We went on the scenic drive along the rugged and fragile limestone cliffs so you can
imagine how dangerous it was for all the ships in the early days especially as there are lots of hidden reefs along this coast. Surprisingly there was also some lovely beaches. We finally came to Lake George which is a shallow lake where Brian's family camped amongst the tea-trees when he was young so many more old memories although things have changed a lot since then.

In the morning we set off for Mt Gambier and settled in to Central Caravan Park for a relaxing day.