Mount Gambier, South Australia {Caravan Park}

I know I have said this before, and I am sure on this trip I will be sure it again but I am surprised at the size of Mount Gambier.  What I am not surprised about however is the number of amazing old buildings that it had.

We headed right to the caravan park when we arrived, setting up and doing a little school work before heading off the the visitors centre to see what we could explore around the town.

I had never heard of Blue Lake, ever but this beautiful volcanic crater is the towns water supply and is an ever changing colour.  We got to experience it in all it's blue glory.

 

Our next stop was to drive up and around to Valley Lake.  A beautiful picnic spot, with large play ground and loads of beautiful looking water.

 

Heading back towards town we decided to actually drive around Blue Lake to see it from the other side.  It is so crystal clear and inviting looking you just wish you could swim or float in it.

We decided to end our afternoon adventure with a trip to the Umpherston Sinkhole.  A beautiful garden that has been created around what was once an under ground cave. Surprisingly it was filled with bees, who had used the limestone walls to create amazing looking honeycomb and made hives within the holes in the wall. I can just picture what it would look like with water running in it after some rain.

 

 

Saturday we started the day with pancakes before heading into town to do the 'Historical Walk'.  This is a self guided walk that takes in the towns historical buildings, each having a plaque with information on its parts use.  During our walk we also stumbled across two markets within town and also got to explore Cave Gardens.

 

 

 

 

    

We jumped into the car now to go and explore some of the antique shops.  I found a lovely set of kitchen canisters but refrained because how many sets does one woman really need {given they are going to the sea container haha}. There was also a beautiful dresser and kitchenette and bookcase and clock and and and, alright I have a problem.  It was lucky we are in a camper because I am sure I would've easily brought at least two of them because not only did they look lovely, they were an amazing price.

Next stop was a lovely ploughmans lunch at Valley Lake.  Where we sat under the trees, watch the water skiing and the kids played on the play ground.  We then headed into the car and went to look Devils Sinkhole {which is used by cave divers and kind of scared me a little}, Little Blue Lake {which is actually green and used for swimming by locals, some crazy kids even jumping of a cliff into the deep water} and tried to find some other places, with no luck.