Thursday, 3 May 2012


30/4/2012  -  Left Wrights Bay about 10 am.  It was quite cool and overcast.  Last night was really cold.  We headed into Kingston SE via Pinks Beach to check out the free camping sites there.  That one wasn't good but the one at Wyomi Beach beside the store was worth staying at for a few days.  Kingston SE was just down the road so we drove around for a while looking for the dump point.  Eventually found it.  It was good as there was a wash down bay for vehicles there too so we used the dump point topped up our water tanks and washed the van too.  Left Kingston SE knowing we would be back to stay one day.  After Kingston SE was the area known as the Coorong.  It is a chain of salt water lakes that are between the coastal dunes and the road.  The condition of the road was good and was really flat so much easier going than all the hills. We called into the 42 mile crossing campground but the road in was very corrugated and the camp wasn't worth the drive.  Stopped at Salt Creek for lunch and a cuppa and kept going.  Just down the road there was a roadside stall selling fresh mullet, rabbits and kangaroo steaks.  We pulled in to check out the mullet and bought a kilo.  They had only just been caught that morning out of the Coorong.  We bought whole fish that had been deheaded and gutted.  They were only as big as the whiting we catch at home so a lot smaller mullet than we are used to.  We got 11 fish for $12 so we were both looking forward to tea.  Anyway on through Meningie a nice little town beside Lake Albert and on to cross the Murray River on the ferry. It is provided free of charge 24 hours a day.  They squeezed a few cars and us on and took us over.  That was a bit of fun. We are now on the Fleurieu Peninsula and travelling on the Fleurieu Way.  On the other side was the small town of Wellington and just past that was Langhorne Creek Rest Area where we decided we'd pull up for the night.  There was quite a few vans in already but we found a fairly flat spot clear of the trees and settled in.  We had a couple of drinks and then cleaned up the mullet, coated them in lemon pepper and Pa cooked them whole on the Weber along with some potato wedges.  Yum, yum.  They were beautiful.  It is so much warmer here so we didn't freeze that night

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