There's nothing exciting about Mt. Gambier IV

Let's finish off with my day advanture to Wannon Fall in Victoria. So I checked out the sinkholes around the city one morning, and heard that there's a beautiful waterfall just outside of the city, having the beautiful sunny day ahead and fueled with caffeine, we set out to find the illustrious waterfall. Soon after leaving Mt. G, we crossed the Victorian border, which was rather exciting I thought. I was waiting for the signs pointing to the waterfall but it never appeared, and after about an hour drive, we came to Casterton, home of the Kelpies! There weren't much to see in town, but we stumble into a bakery which I later learned was run by the family of a scrub nurse back in MGH, small world. There was also an art gallery of this local artist, whose work based mainly on settlers theme, has a real talent on drawing horses. Anyway, we were given direction to the waterfall "just 30 minutes out of town, you will see the sign", and way we go.

Then we came to Coleraine, an even smaller town with nobody in it. We finally found a old man who told us the quickest way is not to take the highway, but through these convoluted, tortuous roads in the mountains. I was adventurous and so was my car. With a high sense of doubt and a full tank of petrol, we gambled with this little path. He turned out to be right!

The waterfall itself is only as impressive in the sense that it's a water feature that you don't see everyday in the back of your garden, so in other words not a whole worldly exciting. It is disappointing in terms of the scale, and you cant really get very close to it. Following the same river upstream we found Nigretta Fall, which is a much lusher reserve with a campsite, and you can get right up to the water where the fall is. I'd imagine a rather popular spot for camping in the summer, what with the swimming and fishing in the water, hiking and hunting in the woods, roasting marsh mellows and sacrificial rituals and whatever people do while camping.

To my surprise, I had a very exciting 6 weeks in Mt. Gambier where I had done many 'firsts'. It was as much a learning medical rotation as a holiday away, and I certainly felt the adventurous spirit. I guess life is like flour, plain and dull on it's own, but what you do with it makes all the difference in the end.