Hello everyone,

Today was a great day, beautiful weather. We started off by getting a great breakfast, bacon and eggs on toast. Then Henny drove us off in her car to Mt. Gambier. We picked up Anne and Karen there and then went to a seafood tasting which they had planned on going to already. As many great snacks as you liked, and even free icecream! Fantastic morning to say the least.

Afterwards we met up at Karen's house where we got to meet Karen's family. We had coffee and tea there and talked a bit before heading off to see the sinkholes of Mt. Gambier. Our first stop was Umpherston sinkhole. We walked to the bottom of it, while Anne and Henny waited up top, and took some pictures of us.

The second stop was Engelbrecht cave. This was a sinkhole as well, with connecting caves. We got a tour down into the caves and learned a lot about the geology about Mt. Gambier, which was quite fascinating. There are sinkholes everywhere under the city, which have not been explored yet. When we got back up, Anne and Henny were waiting for us again and we drove off to our next stop, the Blue Lake.

Once we got near we could see parts of the lake from the car already, but to get the best view we stopped next to the road and took a walk through a tunnel under the road. Here we found the best view of the lake, which was quite blue, but according to Anne and Henny it had been much more blue in the past.

We drove past Valley Lake as well and got a bit thirsty after seeing so much water, so we went to a pub in town. Had some nice 'apple juice' and then dropped off Anne at home and went to see Sandra and Tessa. They had a lovely home and it was great meeting them as well. Afterwards we went back to, as Henny calls it, Nangas and had some simple but nice dinner.

Made some plans for the rest of the week, we'll probably go for Halls Gap tomorrow and go towards Bert on Wednesday or Thursday. Bedtime for now though, see you tomorrow!

Jeremy