Looking back with street view
I’m becoming strangely addicted to Google Street View. This picture is from outside our house in Ceduna, where we lived in 1992-93. Kathleen was conceived there 
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Ecstatic about new number plate
I’m ecstatic about my new number plate (pictured). It’s so memorable, at least the letters.
I wrote earlier about the hassle of moving interstate. The new number plate compensated for some of that.
I can’t recall my number plate in Western Australia, but now… ecstasy … hard to forget.
I just have to remember the numbers.
South Australia’s top 10 destinations
I was talking to a tourism industry leader last week and asked him what was South Australia’s top tourism attraction for interstate and international visitors outside Adelaide.
He surprised me by saying it was Kangaroo Island. I thought it should have been Mount Gambier’s Blue Lake, but imagined it was probably the Barossa Valley.
He said there were studies to confirm Kangaroo Island’s status. I’ve been there (admittedly for work) but didn’t think it was anything special. Read more
Blackfellows Caves
The final picture in today’s travel series is of Blackfellows Caves between Carpenter Rocks and Port MacDonnell near Mount Gambier. Read more
Carpenter Rocks and the Admella
This is the bay at Carpenter Rocks, 35km from Mount Gambier. It looks peaceful enough.
However, one of Australia’s most notable shipwrecks happened near here and commemoration ceremonies are planned next year on the 150th anniversary. Read more
Canunda Wind Farm
I snapped this picture today of these giant turbines at the Canunda Wind Farm between Mount Gambier and Caprneter Rocks near Tantanoola. Read more
Remembering the rain
We’ve spent about 10 days in Mount Gambier so far and we have hardly seen the sun. We assume it’s there because it gets faintly light for about nine hours and then goes dark again.
There wasn’t much rain initially, just lots of fog, cloud and drizzle. That changed in the last couple of days with consistent rain, sometimes heavy.
There’s nothing unusual about rain in south-east South Australia, especially at this time of year, but we had nearly forgotten what winter rain is like after two years at Kalgoorlie.
I actually like the sound of rain on a tin roof.
If time permits I’ll visit the racetrack tomorrow. The Border Watch sponsors the first event.
Cost of living
It’s very expensive to live in remote towns such as Kalgoorlie. It’s worse in the Pilbara, from what I can tell, but Kalgoorlie certainly isn’t cheap.
We had subsidised housing there, which made it reasonably affordable.
When considering a move to Mount Gambier we calculated the impact of losing the housing assistance against lower costs for education, food and services. We figured it would be a balanced equation. Read more
Moonta Bay Jetty
We had a look around Moonta today. Some of the buildings date back to the 1840s.
Apparently Moonta was briefly the biggest town in South Australia while copper mining was in full swing. Many of the early settlers were Cornish.
The jetty was built in 1868 to encourage people to settle and purchase building blocks where the township had been surveyed.
The water is very shallow and I don’t imagine large vessels were ever able to access the port.
I like the mix of grey color tones in this photo I took today.
Former Premier exhumed
We arrived in South Australia to hear and read the extraordinary story about Charles Kingston, a colonial Premier and founder of Australia, being exhumed for a paternity test at the request of an Adelaide businessman.
Sounds like something out of Monty Python doesn’t it?
“The Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, approved an application to exhume the body of Charles Cameron Kingston, one of the Fathers of Federation, as part of a paternity case,” the Adelaide Advertiser reports.
The bodies of two other people suspected of being Kingston’s illegitimate offspring also were exhumed. They are Genevieve Grey and AA “Bert” Edwards. Read more
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