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Greenrise Lake, Penola, SA

S 37°23'51" E 140°50'12"

Sat 25 Mar 2006


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We set off towards the north to continue our journey.

We stopped for morning tea at Little Blue Lake, a typical "hole" for this area. There are lots of "holes which are very deep, sheer sided and filled with water from the water table just like the Blue Lake in Mt Gambier. The strange thing is that the Blue Lake is at the top of a fairly high hill and the other holes are down on the plain. The surface of the shared wate table must be a very strange shape and I don't understand the hydrology. Why doesn't the water from the Blue Lake run down to the lower level.

It wasn't particu;larly blue but the water was quite clear. The hole is about 40 or 50 metrers across and quite deep. We met a young lady sitting beside the pool waiting for some divers to surface. As we were having our tea, several young men all decked out in much warm kit and lots of equipment came back to the carpark where they proceeded to disemcumber themselves of all the gear. Jean thought that all the effort would make the diving quite a bore.

We pressed on to Mt Gambier to fuel up the Motlay.

We decided to go north via Naracoorte so that we could pay another visit to Bool Lagoon.

We stopped at Greenrise Lake which is marked in "The Book" as a day use area but we found no signs and several motorhomes already camped so we decided to stay the night. The main road is nearby but we had a quiet night until the magpies started the dawn chorus.


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