23rd January 2014-Exploring Mt Gambier

23rd January 2014

The day certainly dawned bright and clear. After a lazy start to the day (the first sleep in for a few days.....this holiday lark is pretty tiring!) we back-tracked towards Port MacDonnell in search of Mt Schank, a volcano that we saw direction signs for yesterday (but at the time we were too tired to investigate any further) Indeed it is a volcano and whilst the professionals are not confident enough to say it is extinct, the centuries of trees and foliage make it look fairly harmless. With the memory of the Mt Lofty trek still fresh in our minds, and a lack of sensible footware we declined to climb the very very steep walk to the rim and instead made do with the view from the carpark. We read about the history of the area and were able to look over into a secondary volcanic shaft right next to the main one.

THE SECONDARY VOLCANO NEXT TO MT SCHANK

 

As can happen in life this trip led to another......we had passed a sign that pointed to 'Little Blue Lake" and simply had to investigate further after visiting the actual blue lake yesterday. Heading off down a side road we soon came across the less famous blue lake.....at least it may have been a good mini replica if it had actually been blue!!!!! Admittedly the water looked very inviting.......except it was GREEN!!! I feel the locals are drawing a very long bow in trying to link this to the actual blue lake which as we saw yesterday is very very blue.....

LITTLE BLUE LOOKS SUSPICOUSLY GREEN!?

 

In little blue you are allowed to swim, unlike the actual famous blue lake which you cannot swim in as it is the towns water supply so fair enough really!

Then we headed off, back to a park that is next to the real Blue Lake to have a better look at some exercise equipment we had glimpsed yesterday.

LES INVESTIGATING THE EXERCISE EQUIPMENT (THE BIG SMILE ON HIS FACE MAKES ME THINK IT WAS NO HARDSHIP TO HAVE A PLAY)

 

There is a good assortment of equipment here and most of it uses the persons body weight to provide the counter balance to make it strenuous (see how Les has lifted off the ground!)....very cleverly done. I should admit here that I had heaps more fun playing on this equipment than Les did........you can be as silly as you want when no-one knows who you are (one of the many benefits of travelling) he he he.

We will be leaving Mt Gambier tomorrow and heading into Victoria in search of Sungold Stadium where there is some very exciting sprintcar action happening for 3 nights in a row. In fact Les is at the Mt Gambier Speedway right now catching some of the action, and catching up with friends from Albany who are also attending. Little Sam and I are having a girls night in :) life is great!