Overnight at Pink Lakes (Murray - Sunset National Park)

After an easy sealed highway drive of about 400km from Cape Jervis in South Australia we made camp on the shore of Lake Crosbie, one of the Pink Lakes in Murray-Sunset National Park across the border in Victoria.

Once we had ourselves setup – it doesn’t take too much effort when the sites are large, flat and you just drive in and park where it suits you, we went for a short hike around part of the lakeshore.

Along the way, depending on where the sun is relative to your view of the water, the lake can really look pink.  The park brochure says the water is actually crystal clear and very salty.  The bed of the lake is solid salt and it is a species of red algae that lives in the water that gives it the pink colouring.

Lake Crosbie is one of the Pink Lakes in Murray-Sunset National Park

Along the hiking trail we saw a few different types of brightly coloured wildflowers.  The orange ones and purple ones caught my eye so I took a couple of pictures (see below)

 

Purple flowers atop succulent growth

These look like Marigolds but I don't really know what they are.

As the sun started to get lower in the sky we returned to camp and enjoyed a couple of beers and some wine while we watched the sun go down and the stars come up for what would not be the last time on this trip.

Beautiful watching the sun go down and the southern stars come out!

I intend to write a blog every couple of days to document our journey but will only be able to post when mobile phone coverage is available.  So whenever there is more than a day or three between blogs and you are wondering WTF? - Where are The Farrows?, rest assured we have not given up on the journal - we are probably compulsorily e-silent until the phone 'pings' to tell us we are once again within range of civilisation.