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After a marathon session at the hotel laundry and a good nights sleep in a BED we spent a day taking in the sights of Adelaide. What a lovely place. Lots of history and culture, a nice manageable size like Perth but totally unlike Perth a vibrant nightlife and café culture and a lots of mature parks, shady trees and historic architechture. Until now Perth was our favourite city but it just got pushed into second place by Adelaide.
Then we had to pick up a hire car and hit the road for the final leg of our trip along the Great Ocean road to Melbourne.
To get to the Great Ocean Road involved a long days drive with a stopover at Mount Gambier. Along the way we saw yet more colossolal sized wineries in the Coonawarra region. The size and scale of them is truly frightening compared to my friends in France.
Mount Gambier was a very pleasant and interesting town. Rising up from the flat plains which stretch as far as you can see is Mount Gambier, an extinct volcano. One crater which is perfectly circular contains an amazing lake which is turquoise blue for 6 months of the year ( we were lucky - it's blue right now) then grey for the rest of the year. The other bigger crater contains a lake(not blue) + vegetation and between the two of them is a tiny crater which once contained water but now is dry.
Mount Gambiers other claim to fame is its two "sinkholes" - basically a limestone cave where the roof has collapsed to form a huge hole in the ground. We visited the smaller of the two which is right in the centre of town after dinner and saw the "son et lumiere" show. Really good. then the next day as we departed we took in the bigger of the two the "Umpherston sinkhole" - a sort of Hanging Garden of Babylon. It's a pity it was completely spoilt by the timber processing factory that some philistine had built right behind it.
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