Getting scrubbed up in Nelson

From the Grampians we headed South to camp at Nelson - a lovely little town right on the Glenelg River and next to the Lower Glenelg National Park. We aimed to spend 2 nights there washing the Grampians dirt off ourselves and our clothes, but got so distracted by the local attractions that we stayed an extra night. But there were too many signs in the caravan park, so we couldn't stay any longer than that. Kate has always been irritated by signs and is always the person in offices who pulls down notices in the bathrooms asking staff to 'not wee on the seats', or reminding staff in the kitchen to 'wash your own cups'. Just so annoying. Well this caravan park was the worst - I reckon about 100 signs and counting. It felt like a cross between kindergarten and a penitentiary. There was even a sign on the fridge saying that if anyone was caught taking someone else's food the police would be called! Bit much I think (but that could be guilty memories of stealthily scraping the top of other people's butter as a backpacker in the 90s...). Anyway, signs aside, it was a nice place - a lovely setting, with lots of friendly grey nomads and welcoming managers who have recently taken charge of the property and with any luck may remove some signs before our next visit.

We went down to the Lady Margaret Rose cave - which was cool. Zara and Sash have a thing for the rangers who lead cave tours - they like to hold their hands and open their big brown eyes wide with interest until they are taken into forbidden parts of the cave and get told special secret facts about the cave... It's only happened twice, but perhaps it is a pattern??

Then fishing, playing around the river and all-round good times. Nelson is a hot-spot for kayaking on the beautiful Glenelg river, so we hired a Canadian canoe and paddled up the river for a picnic. Bill dusted off the Go-Pro camera for the first time and attached it precariously to the canoe where it took a great video of Kate's bum and the kids enjoying the ride. Lots of beautiful birds.

Despite being forewarned numerous times, before crossing over into SA we ate an entire bag of carrots, a cucumer, a tub of tomatoes and 7 apples. A friendly couple pulled up beside us and offered us some apples that they didn't want to throw out. We tried to politely say no thanks but we really wanted to throw our mountain-load of apple cores at them!

Goodbye Victoria! See ya in a loooong time.