Rest day @ Mt Gambier

It was a lovely day today the morning fog lifted to a very bright sunny day today. We mapped out our morning to see a few of the sites where we knew the dog would be no problem. Our first stop of Valley Lake which is at the top of the hill and to the left (the blue lake is to the right).

Kouta looks so interested doesn't he! As you can see the water in the Valley Lake is not as blue (in fact it is normal colour) as the Blue Lake water. I can't figure out the blueness in the blue lake river as someone in the campground said they went to the blue lake in the evening and it was a greyish colour so maybe it has something to do with 'sun'?

Anyway stopped of again to take photos of this blue lake (I am fascinated by it!).

At least Kouta looks like he is marginally interested in this photo!

Man we look like vagabonds in this photo!

From here we cruised down into the city centre and east to the Umpherstone Sinkhole which is a large limestone hole in the ground and through volunteers they established an english type garden throughout it. It would be beautiful to see in Spring when all the flowers are in bloom. There is a stairway down to the bottom and you can walk behind the hanging vines.

they have even created wooden windows and shaped the vines around it.

Behind the hanging vines was really cool but at the bottom of the garden it was quite warm. In fact as you walk around it smelt like it was a hot house.

Just near this sinkhole is the Carter Holt timber mill where all the pine in the district is delivered and processed and the planks of pine timber that is being stored outside (and there is heaps of it!) give the surrounding parkland a lovely smell.

Not too sure where we will be going tomorrow depends on how we feel but we will still be in South Australia ... one thing I haven't quite got use to is the fact that they are 30mins behind Victoria in time and Neil and I forgot that there was this time difference in fact it doesn't really matter to us as we don't really have any appointments involving a time!