The Coorong

We didn't, as one larrikin suggested, walk home from Kangaroo Island. I guess that's what you get for leaving the posting so late. In fact we got a nice early ferry and were able to drive all the way to Long Point on the Coorong, crossing the Murray by punt at Wellington.

From The Coorong

Long Point was un-signposted, difficult to find, and once found, fairly windswept and uninviting. we stayed the night and pushed on, stopping to view some of the pelican nesting Islands from the bird hide at Policeman's point.

From The Coorong

The photo shows pelicans which have just left a breeding island leaving downwind on the 150 odd km round trip to the feeding grounds near the barrages between Lake Alexandrina and the Coorong. If you get out your magnifying glass, you can also see a line of hundreds of pelicans flying just above the water at the end of the upwind leg back to the islands. That night we camped at 42 mile crossing, the crossing being across the Coorong to the ocean beach. In the afternoon, a steady stream of 4WDs drove past on the track to the beach. Most didn't return till next day after a windy probably unrewarding night spent trying to catch a monster Mulloway. I tried for some salmon, but had no success either.
That night we had to tick off a campload of Venturers (grownup? scouts) for playing loud music in a national park campsite "Aww, but it's the last night of our trip". At least they turned it off at 10.30pm.

Next day we kept driving along beside the Coorong, stopping to walk to an historic site where wells had been built to support Chinese immigrants walking from South Australia to Victorian gold fields because South Australia did not have the large tax on chinese immigrants that Victoria had.