Bart Bear's Blog

One of the places we visited on our roadtrip this year was Mt Gambier. The whole region is a mess of very old volcano craters. This one is the best known one. It is called the Blue Lake because the crater is filled with water that is incredibly blue. The photo was taken on a cloudy day so you don't see the really crystal blue that it looks on sunny days, but you can see the colour even on a dull day like this. Scruffy and I sat there for ages while the oldies were busy taking their usual swag of photos. We were hoping for a sunny break, but it didn't happen. We did meet some new friends while we were waiting, a family from England that had just settled in Australia. I think that they were surprised and pleased to see that small bears inhabit Australia and can sometimes be found in odd places.

Labels: Great Ocean Road, South Australia, trips