The Coorong

  Day 5          Adelaide          -         Long Point (Coorong National Park)

·      Slow start – because we can!

·      Packed and away by 11

·      Called into a nearby Maccas to send Blog – No service – Boo!

·      Headed east through Adelaide suburbia if you could call Adelaide that. It seems that most of the houses are nice with plenty that are exceptional.

·      Onto the main Highway but not for too long as we turned off at the Mt Lofty Summit Cleland Conservation Park – What a view of Adelaide!

·      Wound through pretty small towns to lunch (3pm) in the park at Goolwa. We’d chosen to follow Nev (the Navman’s) “most economical” directions to get to Goolwa and while it is very dry the drive was very nice. Unfortunately the road to our destination WAS NOT open so…….

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    We had a beer at the Steam Exchange Brewery and

·      Took the longer route through Meningie to our campsite at Long Point in the Coorong National Park

·      Set up the tent beside the Coorong Lagoon with Long Point surrounded by pelicans, seagulls, coots, ducks, swans (black) terns, cormorants and an egret.

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     We were treated to a sunset that was

·    STUNNING!!!!!!!  

Day 6          -         Long Point (Coorong National Park)

·      Awake early (around 4) because of the warm night and the quack, quack, quack, quack!!!!!!!!!!!!

·      Back to sleep until around 6 when the first of the fishing boats that were moored in the bay adjacent to the tent headed out for a day’s fishing

·      Sunrise was as spectacular as was the sunset

    

·      Lazy breakfast

·      Followed by an even lazier day

·      Were lucky to get some Coorong Mullet from the fishermen for lunch and for tea.

    

    

·      Most of the day was spent looking at pelicans (who don’t appear to eat) and ducks (who never stop).  Book reading and puzzles were the other entertainment. Bliss.

     

·      Met and shared the (one) picnic table with Jess who is spending her third year away from the winter of Cornwall.

·      Later night although it was reading (headlamps) not the sunset!

Day 7-         Long Point (Coorong National Park)          -         Adelaide  

·      Packed the tent and the car in between light showers which barely wet the ground

·      Went to start the car          -         Nothing!!!!! I guess we had too much draining the battery! Luckily we were jump started by a guy who was camping nearby.

·      Through Meringie where we bought bread and a lovely fruit bun (with the car running all the time) and headed to Parnka Point for a better view of the where the 2 Coorong lagoons meet. This is an area with abundant birdlife and I wondered how much the birdlovers at the Gravenhurst Seniors Exercise group would be amazed by the variety.

·      Back into Meningie for fuel. Fortunately running the cart for 2 hours had bought the charge in the battery back and it restarted. A lesson learned!

·      Returned over the same ferry we’d used to get to the Coorong but where we waited only minutes for the eastern bound ferry those few days earlier there were enough cars and trucks to fill at least 5 full ferries waiting their turn. Oh well it didn’t stop the Suzuki.

·      Next stop Langhorne Creek. Now what is Langhorne Creek famous for?

·      WINE!!!!

·      We stopped and tasted at only one small winery. Cleggerts. Tasted 6 and could have bought at least one of each. But we came away with Golden White Cabernet Sauvignon, (2002) and Chaliston (new variety) (2003) and Cabernet Sauvignon (with 4% White Cab Sav). Again all we tasted were lovely!

·      To Country Comfort, South Terrace. Home for the next 4 nights.

·      Called by Suzuki Adelaide for a small problem with Sadie (our car) but they weren’t able to check the problem until Tuesday.