Last night I set myself a goal to run around the whole of the Blue Lake… So this morning I got up and did it. It was weird how it felt like there were more uphill parts than downhill, but maybe it’s just because I ran really fast downhill. It took me 17:51mins to run the 3.6kms.
What should have been a short trip became a long day driving and sight seeing because we went via Mt Schank and Port MacDonnell. Mt Schank is another extinct volcano like the Blue Lake, but it doesn’t have any water in it. We were very cautious walking along the narrow steep rim of the crater, but we saw spectacular views from Mt Gambier through to Port MacDonnell on the coast. We travelled on the few kms to Port MacDonnell to view the rugged coastline.
On the way to Robe we passed a wind farm which we reckon had over 100 wind turbines. It is reporting to be the largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere. There are many pine forests in the Mt Gambier area and driving along this route we continue through pine forests and see many trucks with loads of logs. Last night when visiting the sinkhole to feed the possums we were commenting on the smell and lights coming from the timber mill in operation next door. Sean even suggested they were cutting down the pine trees to make tissues. What do you know…Today we drive past the tissue factory!!(Kimberly-Clark) on the outskirts of Millicent - it is reported to supply most of the tissue products to Australia! Another side trip on along the way, to Beachport where we seek the Pool of Siloam which is claimed to be seven times saltier than the ocean. It certainly tasted it…YUK. But Mum & Dad wanted me to bathe my legs and feet in it. It was freezing!
We finally arrived at 5:30 at our destination which Sean had been hanging out for all day, because Mum had told Sean about the indoor heated pool, games room and jumping pillow at our caravan park. What do you think Sean and I did first?
26/9/07 & 27/9/07-Rainy, Windy Days in Robe
These were our only full days in Robe and the weather wasn’t really the best. Most of the time we were here, we were either in the pool or in the games room. Sean and I ended up playing 4 games of pool over the two days and one of them we played with Dad. Sean was always so keen to go to the indoor heated pool he went in morning and night, but I didn’t go in as much as he did-I just went in at night time.
During the daytime we basically stayed in the caravan park the whole time (obviously because of the weather). But there was once we went out for a walk a long a track beside the beach…it wasn’t really that interesting, 
we kept following the track until we got to the shopping centre of Robe, still it wasn’t that interesting but at least we got out of the caravan park for once. To make it interesting on the way back, Sean and I were looking for short-cuts back through the track.
The Jumping Pillow was one of my favourites because it was so fun to play on. 
A Jumping Pillow is like a huge trampoline built into the ground, but in the shape of a gigantic pillow. When you jump on it you can go really high. And the good thing is you can have as many people on at a time, not like on trampolines where there are rules like no more than 2 people allowed at a time; on the Jumping Pillow you can have 20 at a time! I really like playing on it when it’s wet, it gets really slippery!
Out of those 2 days I think that the whole Big4 holiday park was enough to entertain us while the weather was horrible.
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