The last couple of days we have been staying in a R V park in the small town of Dumbleyung, Just a couple of shops, a pub and a nice park.
Some of you may have heard of Donald Campbell. Back in 1964 he broke the land speed record on Lake Ayre and the water speed record on the Dumbleyung Lake .
There is a replica of his Blue Bird boat in town as well as lots of mementos of the occasion. A Museum has a movie, which we watched, of Campbell and the event.
There are a lot of lakes within an hours drive, so we left the van for the day and drove out to Lake Grace. The wildflowers are a bit different to the ones we found on the coast, I guess its because of the salt flats they are growing on.
This tinny on the bank shows where the water level was up to in the foods of 2006. The lake level is well down at the moment.
Most of the roads are good gravel, but then some are defiantly no go zones, as we found out. I think we should have realized when we bypassed this make shift bridge
While we were out we also did some of the wildflower trails. Hope your not sick of them yet….
One of the trails that was sugessted to see flowers, was along the rail track. I was busy taking photos when along came a train, yea , some different pics.!
As well as the flowers,we also came across an old water tank that would of been used for the steam trains back in their day.
It was a big day out, and I was glad to get back to the van, also to see a rainbow over the park we are in.
Another drive today out to the lake where Donald Campbell broke the world record. There is a monument up on the hill overlooking the lake. We drove the lake circuit and through lovely farmland and had nice views of the lake from the lookout.
On the boat ramp from which the Blue Bird was launched.
A small town, in the middle of nowhere, with an interesting piece of history. Glad we stopped in. We will move on tomorrow…