Mount Gambier

Last weekend we headed down to Mount Gambier for the weekend.  On the way we stopped at Coonalpyn to see the grain silos which had been painted by a local artist."Silo Art" is growing in Australia and is seen as another way to attract visitors to small country towns.  This one depicts children that used to live in Coonalpyn

A little further on we stopped to see some tree carvings near Penola.  The carvings depict Mary MacKillop and her contemporaries.

Mount Gambier is famous for it's Blue Lake, a lake in an extinct volcanic crater

We also took a trip across the border to Portland in Victoria.  Portland was packed as there was a big fishing competition there.  We headed out to a couple of nearby beaches and found a couple of critically endangered Hooded Plovers.  This one has been flagged CV

Back in SA we headed to Carpenter Rocks where some of the crayfish fishing fleet were moored up.

Finally, on the way home, we called in to Millicent, where this statue honours those who died and fought in the Black Friday bush-fires.