I can't believe how lucky we've been with the weather on our whole trip around Australia. On the day we left Adelaide they experienced their heaviest rainfall since the 1930s. The rainband moved east behind us, but all we got were a few showers that night. We spent our last night in South Australia in a little seaside town called Southend, about 60km west of Mt Gambier. We found this cute little caravan park called Lynnie's. It is mostly cabin accommodation and caters for group camps, but there was no one else there when we arrived. The kids were excited because it had a hall with a large kitchen, tv area, and a table tennis table. It was a novelty to have that much indoor space!
100m from the caravan park was the beach.
The outdoor camp kitchen area was pretty cool as well!
The next day we drove over the border into Victoria and stayed at a town called Heywood. It was a short drive down to Portland, the place of the first European settlement in Victoria. We climbed the old water tower to get a good view of the area.
We watched as trucks unloaded at the port. We had driven past thousands of acres of plantation forests that day, but couldn't believe the huge piles of woodchips we were seeing.
From there we drove down to the coast to have a look. There are many wind farms in this area, and we've seen a few others in our travels, but we were able to get quite close to these generators.
There are blowholes here but they weren't going that day because the waves weren't big enough.
The landscape was quite strange - almost moon-like. This area is actually called the petrified forest.
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