4 The trip today will see us cover quite a few miles, so we are up early and off. Within 1 hour we are pulled over for our first site of the day, the limestone cliffs of "ship wreck coast". Absolutely stunning! The next 10 km are spent stopping and starting as another bend in the coastal highway brings more of nature's architecture. They have a famous site here called the Twelve Apostles (only six are still standing) and it is the etching of the limestone coast by the ocean that separates these 100 foot pillars out of the main land cliffs and then slowly over centuries pulverizes them into the sea. Further along is the town of Mt. Gambier and they have the distinction of having numerous limestone caves formed right inside the town. One is an amazing sink hole that looks like an old rock quarry, but is not man made. They have planted a tropical botanical garden in the bottom creating a lovely "secret garden" effect. The town's water source is from "the Blue Lake", another limestone crater, formed with volcanic help. The carter is blocked off from any entrance (it IS their drinking source) but they do have a viewing platform. It is the most amazing shade of blue, indescribable. We haven't downloaded our pictures yet so hopefully the color comes through in the photos. The town of Robe is our final stop and our camp ground here is based on a beautiful beach. Another cute sea side town, lots of tourists, restaurants, pubs. When we ask for a Tooey's New (beer) in the pub, we are advised that w are in the "wrong State". It seems that Australians are very loyal to their own State produced beers. This doesn't bother us of course, so we have South Australia's Cooper Ale and Sparkling Ale. Good stuff. Dinner is out at one of Robe's very fine sea food restaurants, Sails. We talk to everybody (our kids would be appalled) and strike up conversation over dinner with the Australian couple next to us. This is a great way to discover what is good to see and what is tourist hype, not to mention that we meet a lot of really interesting people too.
5 Next along our route is Kingston, lobster capital of Australia. So "when in Rome…" we detour off the road to find a vendor of "live" lobster. After much choosing and weighing and wrapping up, we have our two x 1.5k live lobsters (cray fish) ready to go. Well, we should Maybe have asked what the price Might be before we went to all of that trouble. $225.00 later, we have to console ourselves with how good these guys are going to taste when we finally sit down to eat them. (sheesh!) It is a driving day again today and we are driving beside a large, long, ocean estuary. It is very dry here. We are headed into wine country, the Adelaide Hills, and Mount Barker is the location of our caravan park. Tonight we "PIG OUT" on fantastic lobster and we have enough left over for another meal, so we feel much better about our "investment".
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