There is a major highway here called, I think. the Southern Expressway. It is a one way motorway BUT it is one way in different directions at different times of the day! In the mornings until 12.20pm traffic flows south to north and in the afternoons it is one way north to south. At the weekends it works the opposite way round! It is designed of course to enable traffic to get into the city quickly in the mornings and home again quickly in the evenings. However it is extremely confusing and good old TomTom just can't cope with it and keeps sending directions to go the wrong way down the slip road. Eventually I thought of asking it to find a different route; t it grumbled but finally found an alternative. Very scenic it was too,
heading over the peninsula to Victor Harbor, a very popular weekend resort.
At Victor Harbor Matthew Flinders, who was charting the coastline for the British, met his French counterpart Nicholas Baudin and they exchanged information about their discoveries on board Baudin's ship in Encounter Bay.Later it was one of the sites suggested for Adelaide until Colonel Light got his way.
Victor Harbor is on the migratory path of the southern right whale and between June and October they are regularly spotted here. The bay is protected from the Southern Ocean by boulder strewn Granite Island which is linked to the mainland with a causeway.
The island is home to penguins, little or fairy penguins. Hence the notice,
I did see some, (yes I know there is a seagull there too!)
Whilst I was looking at them through the binoculars a man asked if he could take a look and we started chatting and he told me that next week he and his wife are going to Sarlat! (About 45 minutes from me in France) Having walked the 1.5 km circuit of the island,
I went back across the causeway to the town.
The Discovery Centre which includes the old Customs House and Stationmaster's residence has displays of local history, and an old tram
but as it was such a glorious day I headed back to the beach.
As usual, it was virtually deserted, so a good place to sit and ponder....
The sea was much rougher than round the other side of the peninsula and there was a lot of seaweed, no surfers however. Later I left and drove home via Port Eliot and Horseshoe Bay.
The traffic on the Southern Expressway was now running in the opposite direction....but so was I!
heading over the peninsula to Victor Harbor, a very popular weekend resort.
At Victor Harbor Matthew Flinders, who was charting the coastline for the British, met his French counterpart Nicholas Baudin and they exchanged information about their discoveries on board Baudin's ship in Encounter Bay.Later it was one of the sites suggested for Adelaide until Colonel Light got his way.
Victor Harbor is on the migratory path of the southern right whale and between June and October they are regularly spotted here. The bay is protected from the Southern Ocean by boulder strewn Granite Island which is linked to the mainland with a causeway.
The island is home to penguins, little or fairy penguins. Hence the notice,
I did see some, (yes I know there is a seagull there too!)
Whilst I was looking at them through the binoculars a man asked if he could take a look and we started chatting and he told me that next week he and his wife are going to Sarlat! (About 45 minutes from me in France) Having walked the 1.5 km circuit of the island,
I went back across the causeway to the town.
The Discovery Centre which includes the old Customs House and Stationmaster's residence has displays of local history, and an old tram
but as it was such a glorious day I headed back to the beach.
As usual, it was virtually deserted, so a good place to sit and ponder....
The sea was much rougher than round the other side of the peninsula and there was a lot of seaweed, no surfers however. Later I left and drove home via Port Eliot and Horseshoe Bay.
The traffic on the Southern Expressway was now running in the opposite direction....but so was I!
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