Living like a bohemian: Nelson - on our way to Adelaide

9.12.2011 - 11.12.2012

by Frédérique

The landscape changes dramatically once we leave the Great Ocean Road and drive eastwards towards Adelaide. There are no more crowds and we are quite relieved to cruise through desolate bushland and golden fields. We spend a couple of nights in the sleepy fishing village of Nelson, which is surrounded by the impressive Lower Glenelg National Park. It must be pretty exciting to have a canoe here, paddle all the way up the Glenelg River and stay overnight in one of the special canoe camps which are truly in the middle of nowhere.

We continue our way to nearby Mount Gambier and are extremely excited when crossing the South Australian border. A new state to discover! Of course we do not forget to stop at the quarantine station to quickly eat all our remaining bananas and other fruits and leave the peels behind. Ironicly we discover a little fruit fly in our car about 100 kilometers up the road, which must have flown into our car when opening the bins at the station. I thought the whole purpose was to avoid these little creatures going interstate???

We have a quick look around in Mount Gambier, which is halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide (each about 450 km away) and which seems quite a large and lively town.

We continue another 400 km and are amazed to see there is really not much more than a handful of tiny little fishing villages along the way, apart from the big lobster of course. The kids are doing surprisingly well in the car, and happily singing along nursery rhymes we arrive in Port Elliot, just south of Adelaide.