Morgan to Kingston

I managed to get up and away earlyish this morning after struggling to get to sleep last night. That caravan park was noisy. Kids were out playing (screaming) until almost 11pm and then the adults seemed to all go wandering around the park like bored teenagers. They don't seem to realise that my tent isn't double glazed so when they stop and have a conversation 2 metres from me it sounds to me like they are stopped having a conversation 2 metres from me. I did overhear 4 separate conversations as to the purpose of my crash bars. One group thought they were an insurance requirement as I'm a P plater, the other 2 groups thought correctly that they're to protect the radiator and plastics if the bike is dropped and one group strangely decided they must be handles (wtf?).

Anyway I followed the Murray back to the highway south of Adelaide at Murray Bridge. There is always a lot of talk about the water level in the Murray being too low. I prefer to look at it as a tall riverbank problem. I found out the Murray is the third longest navigable river in the world at 2500km with a catchment area 14% of the Australia land mass. That's seriously enormous. It is the 16th longest if you count useless rivers that you can't even drive a boat down the whole way.

I stopped at a lookout called Big Bend. I misread the sign and was expecting a clock. When I was getting back on the bike to leave, I put my headphones in and the music was up to the end of Wish You Were Here. When the song finishes there is the sound of wind and as the whooshing sound was playing an eagle floated up to eye level from somewhere over the cliff. It was as if the whooshing of the song whooshed it right up in front of me. It was an enormous bird. I watched it spiral up into the sky above, hoping it would attack something that wasn't me, then left.

Yeah I didn't get a photo of the eagle. 

I got to Murray Bridge, then continued along past Lake Alexandrina, Lake Albert and Coorong National Park. It was a really nice ride despite it raining off and on. I'm now at Kingston. The big lobster is here. I somehow went right past without noticing it.

Tomorrow I'll head through Mt Gambier and over the Vic border ready to do the Great Ocean Road. Then I'm going home.