Umpherston Sinkhole, Mt Gambier, South Australia, 9:30 AM

Showers and breakfast of mangoes and scones in our cabin in Blue Lake Holiday Park. Driving down to Mt. Gambier, we copy photos to CD and buy bread for lunch from a Korean bakery. Call Marc in Ohio from the parking lot with our cell phone. We leave Mt. Gambier at 10:15 (SA time). A landscape of rolling hills is marked by intensive tree farming and occasional homesteads.

Beachport Conservation Park, Limestone Coast, South Australia, 11:45

Lunch stop in picnic area outside of Robe, 12:30

Kingston S.E., Princes Highway, South Australia, 2 PM

Walk around Salt Creek in Coorong National Park, 4PM. We see the Black Swan and Silver Gulls.

Established in 1966, the 37,000 Ha. Coorong National Park contains abundant species of birds and wildlife, lagoons, sand-dunes, salt-flats and the magnificent beaches of the Younghusband Peninsula. The name derives from the aboriginal "Kurangh", meaning "narrow neck". Stretching from near Goolwa to beyond Salt Creek, it varies in width from a few metres to several kilometres. Made famous as the venue for the 1970's film of Colin Theile's novel "Storm Boy", it has over 400 species of birds and 278 of plants.

Meningie

Wellington Ferry

Kangaroo steak at Leonard's Mill in Second Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA, 9:30 PM

We aim to take accomodations as near to Cape Jervis as possible to insure catching the 8:30 AM SeaLink ferry to Kangaroo Island the next morning. Driving around Lake Alexandrina, we arrive in Normansville to find all accomodations taken. We coninue driving on unsealed roads through a stunning soft sunset into Yankalilla. Asking for directions in a pub, we meet the proprietor of Leonard's Mill in Second Valley who arranges accomodations and dinner for us just 18km north of Cape Jervis. The reconstructed mill where we enjoy dinner has a rustic and authentic feel, but the rooms, in separate cabins are unfinished, spacious and exceedingly modern. We hear thunder walking up to our cabins, but there is no rain.