We headed back to Adelaide today. The road from Adelaide down the coast to Robe passes through the Coorong National Park. The Coorong is a long thin body of water that runs north-south, created by a thin finger of sand dunes that run for the best part of 200km (124 miles) that separate it from the ocean. It contains endless species of birds and fish and truly is an amazing place. Unfortunately it is under threat presently because of the main tributary river (the Murray) in the area is being over used for irrigation and drinking water further upstream, so the volume of water making it to the Coorong has shrunk to non-existent. Here are some photos looking from the mainland side across the water to the barrier sand dunes.
We stopped in a small town called Meningie (Meh-nin-gee) for a little lunch a stretch out of the car. There is a playground on the shores of the lake (part of the Murray/Coorong water system) that Callum was keen to take a closer look at.
Here is his very first time on a slippery dip (slide).
Before we got back on the road, Jen was in the middle of changing Callum's diaper when he escaped her grasp in the car and decided he was going to drive the rest of the way home.
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