Colonel Mustard in the billiards room with the candle stick

We stayed in a magnificent house in Mt Gambier. We had our own fireplace drawing room complete with every kind of drink you could imagine. Too bad we don’t drink. Upstairs was the largest billiards table I have ever seen. Apparently Edward VIII, when he was Prince of Wales, played billiards at this table (before Wallace). It was so large it was elevated to the second story before the roof was added to the house.

Mt Gambier sits aloft a limestone rock formation. The limestone has eroded over many years and there is now an extensive underground cave system and a giant sinkhole. The sinkhole now 200 feet down appeared suddenly in the 1800’s and is still sinking. 

The city has filled the sinkhole with gorgeous vegetation and Wombats call it home. A set of narrow steps invited us down all the way to the bottom.

 Signage was there instructing us on what to feed the wombats. We left Mt Gambier after far too short a stay and are now in Port Fairy. The place we are in here would never be of interest to Royalty. We were advised to expect not to like the weather. We were warned the problem is not that you get all 4 seasons in a day, it is that you get all 4 seasons every 5 minutes. In fact this is true.