After breakfast and packing up we take the dogs for a walk and meet Thomas, our very friendly neighbour-for-a-night from Germany who is traveling Australia by himself using his thumb (hitch hiking), friends and their van’s and now his bike. He’s having a good time and gives us one of his apples. In return we share some of our cherries. You meet great people when traveling.
Fruit seems to come into season and we stop for some very nice fresh strawberries for next to nothing.
Then we go for a second time to Hanhdorf. The first time we didn’t have enough time to stop and it was a Sunday so the place was packed with visitors. This time we can find a parking spot and Marjo checks out the German stores.
To our surprise she even found a shop where the father of the shopkeeper was German and the mother Dutch. So they stocked also pepernoten!
The pinky is to show relative size and “yes”, I got a little hungry while taking the picture and already took a bite.
Then we leave the hilly, fertile area around Adelaide and head down the Limestone coast.
We stop in Meningie for fuel and cash and decide to stay there overnight, right on lake Albert. This must be a nice spot as one fellow camper came for a night and that was two years and four days ago and they are still there and another has camped there continuously since 1984. I didn’t check whether he put up an Australian flag otherwise he would have had squatters rights by now.
Lake Albert is the small lake compared to Lake Alexandrina that flow into the Coorong a well known stretch of wetland that consists of ocean beach, freshwater lakes, estuaries, saline lagoon and river mouth many kilometers along the coast.
The lake is knee deep and ideal for the dogs to wade in and for us to cool down.
We all had a quiet afternoon, Nossi was even too lazy to chase the birds.
We didn’t want to take any chances and made sure that he was well tied down and would probaly have taken the dog beds and Dotti after him if he wouldn’t have been too tired to bolt after the bird.
That evening we had again one of Marjo’s fabulous dinners and enjoyed the evening sunset.
A magical day.
Posted from Southend, South Australia, Australia.
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