Ingallalla Falls and Port Elliot

We're taking a short break on the Fleurieu Penisula. We left this morning on a fine day, after the chaotic weather of Friday night / Saturday morning, and Sunday fixing the flashing that had come adrift from the roof.

This house was in the way on the main road south, so we detoured via the Myponga reservoir road into Carrickalinga.

We thought we'd stop here for lunch but there appears to be no shops in this village. So, the original plan was to stop at the Yankalilla bakery, and this was what we reverted to doing. It turned out to be an excellent solution, as even though it was after 2pm there was an excellent selection of pies and cakes. A steak & onion pie with sauce later (and coffee of course), we were ready to venture on to the next stop on the itinerary.

Ingallala falls had been mentioned by Karen's brother Colin a couple of weeks ago as place worthy of a side trip. This is the reason for heading down South Road rather than the alternate route I'd normally take through Strath or Meadows.

As you can see, the 10km on dirt road to the falls was quite worth the effort. It's a very easy stroll from the carpark to the falls, with several picnic spots on the way.

Plugging our destination into the TomTom resulted in it recommending what appeared to be a windy route, perhaps on lots more dirt roads, but it turned out to be absolutely correct, providing a much shorter exit to sealed road than the way into the falls, and a very quiet, easy run into Victor Harbor and onto Port Elliot.

We cased the shops, cafes and restaurants to work out where to go for dinner. The conclusion was we couldn't decide, so we just made our way to "the shack". After importing our chattels and making the bed (and generally cluttering the place), we went for a walk to the beach / cliff top. This is approximately 2 minutes walk from the front gate.

If you zoom in you're see there are some hardy / crazy folk in the water waiting for the perfect wave. I reckon they will be blue and really wrinkly when they finish.

The sun has basically gone, but we got a pretty sky to finish the day.

We continued our stroll up "The Strand", where we came upon the "Hotel Elliot". One look at the menu, and noting Monday is "Steak Night" the descision was made to stop right here and have dinner. A surf & turf for each of us, and a shared apple & rhubarb crumble with custard and ice cream was more than enough. Excellent service and nice meals - I can recommend this place and we'll probably go back another time.

We've brought the telescope with us, whch I've put out on the deck, but by the time I'm organised it has clouded over somewhat, so we'll scrub that from the evenings activities.