You would not believe it, but we left Kingston on Sunday morning and it was brilliant sunshine.  It was the first time that we had seen the sun since leaving Echuca almost 2 weeks ago. 

We were almost tempted to stay another day instead of tempting fate but we had to press on.  It was a fairly easy drive but for the Princes Hwy, it is not very wide.  You just get used to driving on double lane highways in Melbourne.  Half way to Meningie Deb decided that she would take the Captains chair and I could lay back and relax.  It was the first time that she had driven on a narrow road and she took it all in her stride.  The only disappointment came when we met another fellow caravanner and Deb gave the caravanners wave but it was not reciprocated.  She was devastated and had to pull over and let me drive. 

Pulled into Meningie which is a very little seaside village much the same as San Remo except it is on Lake Albert.  This lake is really huge and goes as far as the eye can see.  From all reports though, it is also full of the dreaded carp so not much fishing going on there.  We got the bikes out of the car and went for a ride into the township?? and rode along Pelican Way.  A bit of a misnomer really as we didn't see any pelicans.

 

After getting back to the park we went for a walk along the banks of the lake.  Finally we found the missing pelicans.  There are tons of them all over the lake.  Arrived back from our walk just in time to take some professional photos of the sunset.  Just glorious over the lake.

 

Not really much else to do in Meningie as we were only staying the one night.  Spoke to the park managers about the tourist attraction called the 'Pink Lake' but according to him it was a bit of a 'missing attraction' as he had driven past it numerous times and had never felt the urge to have a closer look.

After leaving Meningie on Monday morning, we drove over the 'Pink Lake' and like the manager, never felt the urge to take a closer inspection.  It is allegedly only Pink in the summer.  Yeh sure it is.

The next town we drove through was a little whistle stop called Tailem Bend.  After reading the reviews on the caravanning web sites we were almost to scared to stop.  A case of tying everything down even before you get out of the car.  We were tempted to check out the Sovereign Hill type village but decided to save our money for the Open Range Zoo just out of Murray Bridge tomorrow.

Arrived in Murray Bridge and went to check out the shopping centre.  It was strange to walk into a big shopping centre again as we had not see that since leaving Melbourne.  Went on our Leyland Brothers walk and finished up down at the river where I did my Casey Jones impersonation in a train.  If you check out the next photo you can see me driving the train across the old style steel bridge over the river.  After all of that excitement it was back to the park where we checked out the house boats on the marina, awesome, and of course the pelicans that are now shadowing us everywhere. 

Anyway that is all for now, except to say that I had no windcheater on today.  Yes, you guessed it, the weather was fine.  Except for this minute where I can hear spitting rain on the roof of the van.  Cant expect too much of a good thing all at once. 

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