Victor Harbour & Port Elliott

We left Goolwa on 11 April for the short drive along the coast to Victor Harbour located on Encounter Bay where we booked into a beachfront caravan park not far from the town centre. Victor Harbour is a very popular beachside holiday destination for South Australians and being Sunday, as well as the school holidays, the town was extremely busy. After a lunch of local fish ‘n chips we drove back along the coast to Port Elliott on Horseshoe Bay. The lookout at Freemans Nob provided magnificent views up and down the coast and we joined the Sunday crowds browsing through the handful of shops along the Strand. Once back in Victor Harbour we drove to the southern headland called the Bluff which again gave sweeping views in both directions along the coast. We also stopped on the side of the road for a while to watch a playful seal swimming very close into shore. Apparently during the winter months the Southern Right whales are also frequent visitors to Encounter Bay. The following day we enjoyed another seafood lunch in town with friends who’d driven down from Adelaide before we decided to burn some calories by walking out along the causeway to Granite Island. We were soon overtaken by a horse drawn tram which regularly carries visitors to and from the island along the causeway and is a very popular tourist attraction.