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KINGSTON SE
It’s been a few months since we have been near a decent beach. I was hanging for the smell and sound of the surf. We had left Murray Bridge and took the coast road beside the Coorong and past Meningie. See my Murray Bridge page. This area is called the Limestone Coast. Heading south, our first stop, Kingston SE. Why Kingston SE and not just Kingston, I wondered? Google to the rescue. 😊 It’s to distinguish from Kingston-on-Murray. So, there you go.
We parked
up at the local RV park opposite the beach.
Yes! The beach. 😊 The
amount of seaweed here is phenomenal.
They even had a tractor permanently on the beach to move the seaweed
back. There is a seafood shop here, but we ended up having
our seafood fix in Robe. More about that
later.
Kingston SE
is the home of a big thing. The Big
Lobster. So of course I had to do the
tourist thing and take a pic. Also, I
got some nice sunset photos here overlooking the beach.
ROBE
Robe beach
is pretty. Robe had a nice feel to it so
we decided to stay here a few nights. We
picked a nice little caravan park on the lake.
Very pretty. The
office is in a lovely old heritage building along with a lovely heritage
house alongside.
There was
only one problem. It was bitterly cold
and the wind was churning up lots of white foam. I took my first timelapse here. See below.
Not the best, but at least I know it works. Will have to practice some more. Tookie wanted to go out and was looking out
the window. Hubby had to warn him about
the cold wind lol.
Seafood
fix. Robe had a fantastic little marina
so there was no doubt to us that the seafood here would be fresh. We found a small seafood co-op and bought
fresh prawns, oysters, crab meat and marinated octopus. I made oyster Kilpatrick and a crab chowder and the prawns got devoured el natural. The seafood was indeed fresh! Yummy. 😁
VIDEO - ROBE LAKESIDE CARAVAN PARK TIMELAPSE
BEACHPORT
Hubby and I
just loved Beachport. Hubby in
particular because the Caravan Park was located right in between the beach and
Golf Course. Hubby just loves his beach
fishing and golf.
The beach
is picture postcard perfect. Beachport claims
to be the lobster capital and no wonder.
It has a great boat launch and there were lots of lobster boats.
We drove
around the cliffs on Bowman Scenic Drive and pulled up at the various lookouts. The water here is deep blue with plenty of white-water
surf breaks. I wouldn’t be surfing here
though as the rocks looked pretty treacherous. In addition, South Australia is well known for great white sharks.
We had 2 nice lunches in Beachport. We shared duck spring rolls and a chicken burger at Bompas in the main street and hubby had a Tim Tam cake. I liked the atmosphere and minimalistic décor. The view out of the window looking at the beach was nice. I caught a picture of hubby in a pensive moment and made it black and white. The other meal was a shared fish burger at the seafood shop opposite the jetty. Soooo fresh and very yummy! This place is popular and we know why. 😉
GOLF
As the Golf
Course is just across the road from the Caravan Park here, hubby decided to
have a round. I went along for the ride
and hopefully take some good photos. We
both had a great time. It was fun
driving around in the golf buggy. I think the photos turned out real good. Maybe I should take up golf. I told hubby that I don’t need an expensive
golf set. Just 2 clubs will do me. A driving one and a putting one 😉
All in all,
our drive down the Limestone Coast was well worth it. Good decision. We could have driven down through the
Coonawarra Wine Region. Gee South
Australia makes a lot of wine! But we had
already experienced the Clare and Barossa. I am happy that we went this way so that I was able to get a beach and seafood fix.
😊
Hubby and I are checking out places along the way for a potential spot to settle down. Beachport so far is up there on our list. There is probably just one thing that is a negative to me and that is Beachport is too far from Adelaide to fly out to see the kids and visa versa. I do want to be closer to a major hub or at least maybe a train ride to a major hub. That’s not asking too much. Or is it?...
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