Lake Alexandrina in the Fleurieu Peninsula
Scrubby sand dunes and surf at the coastal area in the Coorang.
Kim and I got recently went to visit Lake Alexandrina. We went with one of Kim's co-workers and her husband, Kathy and Tony. Lake Alexandria is a huge lake that sits about an hours drive south east of Adelaide. We started our trip in the oldest German town in South Australia- Hahndorf.
Some water reeds along the shore at Lake Alexandrina
We drove through the green rolling Adelaide hills (it has been raining a lot the past month) - when we came and visited this area a few months ago it was much dryer and brown. Its amazing what a little rain can do. We went through the town of Strathalbyn, Currency Creek, and Goolwa. Kathy and Tony used to live in the area around Clayton so they knew the area very well and took us to some neat places and filled us in with some local knowledge.
Kim, Kathy, and Tony overlooking the Encounter Bay in the beach town of Goolwa
We saw the mouth of the Murray River which feeds into lake Alexandrina and some of the National Park area on the Coorang. We stopped in the beach town of Goolwa and went aboard an old historic paddle steamer boat boat called the Oscar W. It was a fun day and they even brought lunch for us which was homemade coleslaw, chicken schnitzel, and fresh veggies- very tasty indeed!
The beach area in Goolwa it was a cool, windy, and overcast day.
