Gidday all,

While at Cockatoo lake I tried my luck with the yabby net again, everyone was catching heaps but we came up empty each time. Finally got lucky, and big ones too.

  Moved on after a week on the lake, a bit reluctant to go, but the coast was calling.

Next stop, Mount Gambier, toured about town then did a circle around Blue Lake, amazing colours the photos don’t do it justice.

Then off out of town looking for a camp. Came to Little Blue Lake a way south. Another crater but much smaller. When we set up camp a car load of young fellas pulled up and started to do backflips into the water. Great afternoon entertainment. Then a couple of old kombi vans pulled up to camp. They were in top condition and looked great. They were heading to the Nullabor on a road trip, way to go.

We reached the coast at Port MacDonnell, a small fishing village at the bottom of the state near the Victorian border, with a fairly big rock lobster fishing fleet. Then northwest along the Limestone Coast, as they call it. Came to Carpenter Rocks, another fishing village at the start of a 4wd track through the Canunda National Park.

We hummed and harred for a while then, with Din’s urging, let the tyres down and headed up the soft sandy track. After all, why have a 4x4 if you don’t use it.

The track follows the beach just behind the large sand dunes on the coast, sometimes ducking off to the beach then back over the sand dunes and through the low coastal scrub and along great banks of limestone from which the coast gets its name.

Good old Ned performed well through the soft sand and dunes of the track, though had two attempts at one particularly steep dune, thought for a moment we may have to turn back, then found a less steep track around. These are the tracks we love.

Took two days to do the 40ks and came out just below Millicent, found a camp site at Geltwood Beach and stopped for the night then reinflated the tyres and hung out the washing, which received a good wash cycle on the track. 

Back onto the bitumen for the next leg to Millicent and then Beachport and Robe.