A beautiful sunny morning, not a cloud in the sky. It’s fresh with a light breeze, but not super cold. The lake is a little lower today, not too much, maybe a few cm’s. The little sandbar that is in front of the campsite is a little larger than it was yesterday. I‘m assuming there must me a small tide here in the lake.
Breakfast off the weber again. While we slowly get ready to leave.
Low tide? 
Yummy Breakfast
We drive the 100km of the Coorong, the first 30 or 40km there is this sensational view of the Coorong on the right hand side, after this, like most waterways it starts to be obscured by shrubs and bushland. At the bottom we take a small detour out to the beach at a place called The Granites. I’ve seen it on wikicmamps as one of those carpark freecamps. While this is the first place we’ve had the chance to see the actual coast, it is also interesting to see if it might have been a plausible camp site. We arrive at the carpark, I’ve seen better. We first walk to the platform lookout, and we see why it is called “The Granites”, these five or six huge boulders. They must be granite, as they seem to have survived the waves for longer than any rocks around. We walk down the 4×4 track to get down to the beach. I’d so love to ditch the van and have a go, but time is not on our side. We walk down, and I can only assume like the Coorong the beach is as far as the eye can see in both directions. As we walk down there are these, what we can only call, hairy balls, We first saw them on Hindmarsh Island, at the “Mouth of the Murray lookout”, but we’ve seen them at a few places since. The ones here are pretty large. There is this a guy fishing around the Granites so he’s kinda monopolising the place, hey this could be his home maybe that’s OK. The kids run up and down the beach and seem to really have a ball, even more so with these hair balls. Justine is so great in picking a piece of shell or sealife, she finds several cuttlefish and a couple of sea urchin shells.
The Granites 
In the background
We pull into Kingston S.E., this is originally where we thought we might stay tonight. There is a caravan park and a free camp in town. After stopping at the Granites, I was pretty sure we should push onto Robe, Whilst Kingston looks nice, the town is not that big there should be more to do in Robe.
We drive into Kingston S.E. and do a lap of the town. A pretty place, being Sunday it is very quiet. We stop in the main street and buy some fish and chips. A lovely lady, but this must be the slowest fish and chip shop in the world. I swear it took over 25min to make it. What did they need to charter a boat to catch the fish….? Anyway we take this down to the foreshore, right next to the free RV camp. Queue the seagull, but this time we’re also ambushed by a bunch of magpies too. The campground does look good, but I think Robe should be better for our plans.
Liam’s hair actually grew while we waited for lunch.
We take a slight detour out via Cape Jaffra, I can’t say I was expecting much, and that’s pretty much what’s there. I did think there was a lighthouse or something, but nope.
Robe has 4 caravan parks, the Discovery park did have the lure of an indoor heated swimming pool, but like two of the others is a bit out of town. One is close to town and right on the water, although the photos make it look tiny and pretty cramped. We figure we’ll take a look. As we arrive we can see it is small, but as we’re here in winter, there ain’t any crowds. “Pick any spot you like” we’re told, then we drive over the hill and there is the ocean, what a fantastic view. There is another odd sight, another Wonderland!, a Queensland family who are 14mths into what they think might be close to a 2 year lap. Wow.
We locate a site right by the ocean, they are really tight sites, and I make a bit of hash getting the van in. In hindsight I should have backed it all the way down the road and attacked the site from a different angle. We setup properly as we’re here for two nights. I go to empty the dunny cassette and this place as the oddest (although not the worst) dump point I’ve ever seen!
The van park, a bit like Port Elliot is part of a coastal walking trail, so we walk down to the beach, the kids have a play in the local playground and we do a quick loop of this end of town. So many old building here. Tomorrow we’ll do the full coastal trail.
What an amazing horizon, we missed the actual sunset while we where on our walk. So we need to make sure we’re here on time tomorrow night.
Two Wonderlands on the coast.
Before dinner we have a brief chat with Dan and Nat and their 9yo daughter. They bought their van 2nd hand, and it is Van #16, we thought it looks like an early model. They’ve had some amazing adventures.