Mt gambier

Well when planning things it's always best to have a plan b, which is what we used when deciding to travel to mt gambier instead of Nelson on the Victorian side of the border. The reason being that when we were on the great ocean road we thought there would be suitable supermarkets for us to shop at especially for Ryder, we were a bit surprised when there were none especially in port Campell, so we decided that the surrounds of a bigger town were in need

We have been through mt gambier before and as a kid I had been there but you forget sometimes how magic a place is. Our park was situated no more then one hundred metres away from blue lake that was in full colour at this time of year and it took our breath away, the crispness of the colour and the clearness of the water is amazing and both mornings we stayed we enjoyed a leisurely stroll atleast part of the way around.

We woke up Thursday and decided to travel to the princess Margret caves about 20 minutes out of town. We took the tour underneath and once again we were both astounded by natures beauty, Makenzie and Ryder on the other hand couldn't give two hoots with Ryder just wanting to see how much of his fist fits in his mouth and Makenzie almost oblivious to the fact we were in caves.

That night we went into town as we had heard from a few people that the umpherston sinkhole was great and that at dusk th possums came out and you could feed them, so we waited till what we thought was dusk and left for the sinkhole. When we got there we were once again amazed by the natural beauty that we were looking at, the sinkhole had been landscaped about 70 years ago and now was full of hanging Vines and in the hole was a garden full of differnt flowers. Unbeknowns to us was the fact that dusk was about an hour after we thought it was so Makenzie was over it before it even began. We did however get to see two possums on the way out.

So to the day we are supposed to leave and here comes some impulse buying news that still has us in shock. When we drove into town and got to the caravan park and got to chatting to the couple next to us and they asked me about our trailer. I said to them that with the young fella still on bottles that the camper trailer was Hard work. They said to me that a week ago they had a trailer and that there jayco expanda I was looking at was a day old. So for some reason this morning we went into jayco mt gambier for a look and an hour later we put a deposit on a outback swan. I think sitting here having a beer writing this I still am puzzled but I think in the long run we have made the right decision and that we will have years of travel with it.

Anyway we are now of to beachport for a couple of days until we head back and pick up our purchase..