Saturday, February 26, 2011

DARTMOOR

After refueling at Mt.Gambier (Diesel $1.34.9, Unleaded $1.39.9) we only travelled 48 kms today arriving at Dartmoor in Victoria around 2pm, where we had a look at the chainsaw carvings in the main street and parks. They have had statues carved out of trees by a chainsaw. The biggest one was a representation of children's nursery rhymes(see photo). A nice lady came out of her house to talk to us when she saw us looking at them to give us some brochures on them and we had a talk with her about them. We setup camp just down the road at "Fort O'Hare" which is the junction of two rivers and is historic because Mitchell (explorer) camped there in the 1800's. The camp was really good and there was plenty of little Blue Wrens, Kookaburras and even these ants that jump! Anyhow despite there being some mosquitoes there we had a peaceful night camped beside the Glenelg river. No TV and Mobile coverage was poor here.