Pelicans and sunsets at the Coorong

Next stop was the Coorong in SA - a weird long stretch of skinny peninsular between the sea and a salty lagoon. Hard to describe so look at a map. We knew of it because of Alison Lester's book Are we there yet? (bible of all families travelling Australia) where they stop at the Coorong and the big brother makes them all laugh by saying, 'what a wonderful bird is the pelican, it's beak can hold more that it's belly-can'. Unsurprisingly this phrase was repeated perhaps 100 times during out stay there. There were lots of pelicans there - flying in beautiful formations over our campsite.

We set up camp right next to the lagoon and were greeted with such a spectacular sunset that we almost decided to stay there forever. We had the place to ourselves for a day or so, and then were joined by an older couple from South Australia who spend a lot of time camping and finance their retirement by collecting cans from the roadside and searching campsites and beaches with a metal detector. Bill and Kate had a sudden flash into their future...

At the Coorong, we resumed our usual past-times - Bill hitting the wild and rugged beaches in search of fish, and Kate hitting the walking trails through sand dunes and accross salt lakes. One kid each. We also discovered the fun of driving on the beach. This time, the Go-Pro was held out the window while Bill drove through water crossings and across dunes. Cool footage.

The kids found a few new past-times - making a doll's adventure playground from rocks and dressing up in our clothes a pretending to be us...

We could have stayed longer, but Easter was bearing down on us and we wanted to avoid the Adelaide holiday makers. So, time to head to the big smoke!