Boxing Day - Day 8

Well it has been a week now since we left - time flies!

We packed up our lovely green site in Mt Gambier this morning and headed off to the town of Naracoorte. Enroute we stopped at the lovely quaint old town of Penola - reportedly one of the oldest towns in South Australia.

Penola has lovely old sandstone buildings and is full of character. The most famous street being Petticoat Lane. A Charming old street full of lovely old cottages in various states of repair and all listed by the National Trust. One of the cottages, Sharam Cottage has a lovely old rambiling garden with a herb and vegetable patch out the back where we were able to pick some herbs to take away with us.

After lunch and a play at a brand new local park - (it has only been open for three weeks) we continued on to Naracoorte. After checking in and setting up we just took some time to do not much around the van. The boys drove trucks in the sandy dirt around the van - getting filthy but loving it. Gem had a lovely time playing with her "little people".

The caravan park backs onto the local swimming pool - a very large swimming lake that has been constructed. So after dinner we put bathers on the kids and headed off down to the lake. It has a graded beach entry area for little people. All three had a lovely time splashing, stomping and wading at the "beach." We dragged them away to warm showers with the promise of returning tomorrow.