Robe to Victor Harbor-28/9/07

Well another long day in the car as we headed off to Victor Harbor for 4 nights. Before we actually left Robe, Mum wanted to get some photos of the rugged coastline; we all thought she was going to get blown away it was so windy.

Sean and I basically slept in the car the whole way as we couldn’t get to sleep last night because of the rain and wind. There were a few stops along the way and at Kingston after fish & chips for lunch we decided to see how the Analematic sundial  worked (can you have a guess what it might be? ). Well, Mum stayed at the sundial and worked it out while we all fled from the swooping plovers! Larry the Lobster (the dumbest ‘Big Thing’ in Australia) farewelled us on our way.

We got to Victor Harbor at about 4:10pm and did the usual-unpacked everything out of the car and got settled into to our motel unit. So after getting all that sorted out, have a guess what we did… had a game of pool!

Tea time was near so out we went to look for a place. We found somewhere to go-a pizza and pasta place. I was so hungry that I had a whole Large Aussie pizza! That certainly filled me up. I have to say, that was probably one of the best tasting Aussie pizzas I have had.

When we got back to the motel Sean and I watched a movie on the laptop while Mum and Dad watched their show on TV.

29/9/07-Grand Final Day

You can probably guess what Sean and I did first, as I absolutely love playing pool. That’s why Sean and I are always playing pool. To start the day today, we went for a walk along a causeway out to an island-Granite Island-to check it out. On the causeway we passed a tram which was being pulled by a horse, there were quite a few people on it. I honestly thought it was for the lazy people because it was going so slow that it was quicker to walk!  While we were walking around Granite Island Dad kept getting comments from strangers… he was the only one in town wearing a Cats scarf. One thing I liked on Granite Island was watching the huge waves being splashed up against the rocks.

On our way back to Victor Harbor we saw all of these rides set up for the SA school holiday. Sean and I played a game of mini golf. I won 49-59 which was 3 shots off the male junior record! It was fun.

As Grand Final time was near (Port Adelaide against Geelong), we went and got some party food to have while watching the game. During the second quarter of the game Sean and I went to the pool for a swim. It was fun throwing the mini soccer ball at each other. We came back at the start of the third quarter to see Geelong was thrashing Port Adelaide. We watched until the end to see that Geelong won by 119 points (I kind of felt sorry for Port Adelaide, it must have been pretty embarrassing to lose like they did).

That night we got as many warm clothes on as we could, because it was so cold when we went out to Granite Island again on a guided tour to see penguins. The guide told us that they come back from the ocean from a big day of fishing for food for their families, and the little baby penguins stay home in their burrows (that’s why we don’t see them in day time). We even saw a couple of possums roaming around and two water rats scamper along the rocks.

After that freezing walk we got back into our warm beds and enjoyed another night watching a movie (Storm boy) on the laptop!

30/9/07 & 1/10/07- Wineries and Walks.

These two days weren’t really the most interesting days of the trip. Driving around in the car to all these wineries that Mum & Dad went to taste at was giving me an annoying headache, but at the last one I could get some fresh air as there was a maze we could walk through. That was a bit more fun than sitting in the car waiting for Mum & Dad to hurry up and finish tasting the wines. 

That next day was also a bit boring (well for me at least), the first thing wasn’t too bad going up to the top of Rosetta Head (Bluff), that was just a lookout over Victor Harbor and Granite Island. But the next thing was so boring, we went on a 16km walk along the beach to get to the spot were the Murray River meets the sea (the Murray Mouth). My feet were killing me on the way back. Not only that…. we didn’t walk back along the beach we walked along this track that hadn’t been walked on for months, maybe years (we guessed). Plants were growing all over the track and we couldn’t walk through it in some parts. We were walking through reeds that were taller than me, Mum and Dad! and through scrub and scratchy grasslands. I didn’t even have a clue why we were doing this. I was so exhausted after about 3 hrs of walking. We had walked through the area where Storm boy was filmed (the Coorong) and we saw a few Mr. Percivals, Black Swans, White Ibis, White Faced Heron, Intermediate Egrets, Pied Cormorants, ducks and a Pied Oyster Catcher.

Later we drove onto Hindmarsh Island (over the secret women’s business bridge) to a spot where you could view the Murray Mouth from a lookout!

That night, to cheer me up, we had fish’n'chips. I didn’t have much trouble getting to sleep that night.