Random thoughts and observations
When you live as close to the beach as we do it may seem strange to drive 82km to a beach, but that’s what we did today.
We went to Middleton on the Fleurieu Peninsula between Goolwa and Port Elliot. We took the Goolwa road from Mount Compass.
The town is mainly holiday homes, as far as I can tell, but apparently it has a permanent population of 818, according to the 2006 census.
It’s another grey day on the Carpricorn Coast, no rain again though. I read in a tourist brochure that Farnborough Beach is very nice and good for surfing. We had trouble finding it because there are no signs. Eventually I followed my instinct and a side road took us directly there. It wasn’t very inviting. [...]
The weather has cooled down a little. It was 32 degrees in Mount Gambier today, but Adelaide recorded its sixth day in a row of more than 40. We went to Cape Bridgewater near Portland again. This time I took the Lumix camera. I’m not keen on taking the Nikon to a beach. There was [...]
I’d fly to Kangaroo Island this weekend. South Australia is enduring a heat wave. It should be a lot cooler there, and if it's not I'll escape to the beach. This post was automatically published here from Plinky. From their own description: “Plinky makes it easy for you to create inspired content. Every day we [...]
We’re into the third day of a heat wave that looks set to continue for several more days at least. Mount Gambier today recorded its equal second hottest day ever of 43.6 degrees (110.5F). Tomorrow is again forecast to be 44 degrees followed by 40 on Friday before a “cool change” to 35 on Saturday. [...]
