Mt Gambier South Australia

The Blue Lake at Mt Gambier light blue in summer and dark blue in winter. You can just see the light blue on the edges.

 In the middle of town there is a limestone cave . This part of the coast is called the limestone coast . Lots of caves. The rose gardens are around the edge.

Historic buildings now an art gallery

 

My own hotel?  They must love me down here Ha! Ha!

This sculptured suitcase represents the people who migrated here from all around the world to establish this city.

 

Keith to Portland

Young grape vines

Grapes and roses together 

Historic buildings

Plantation Pine trees the main business in Portland .. 3000,000 ton of chip bark every year exported.

 

The port and the chip bark

Lots of  Wind farms 

The Barossa Valley

This is a very beautiful part of our country.. The grapes , miles and miles of them. The  old buildings built of sandstone and bluestone and the wineries. At this time of the year the autumn colours are beautiful and it made me feel like I was in Germany .

Markets in old Churches.

My own sewing shop

Cheese tasting in Nurioopta

Gin tasting in the Barossa but no Maggie to meet.

Chateau Tanunda

Maggie Beer's kitchen and garden 

Peterborough South Australia

This is a beautiful part of Australia but like many areas in Queensland and New South Wales a lot of this area is suffering from drought.. 

I stumbled on a little treasure here. The quilt they made for the centenary of Federation. A lot of little stitches and different techniques to tell the story of the town of Peterborough.

This town was once the hub of all rail traffic in South Australia. I love the emus.

 

 The town has their history explained in a museum that is well worth seeing and at night the museum runs a sound and light show. You sit in an old railway carriage and watch a very informative show about the history of Peterborough.

For some crazy reason Australian states had different width railway tracks and  each time rail crossed state borders change had to be made. In those days it meant the whole train had to be unloaded and reloaded. This happened at Terowie.