Car Hire Mount Gambier - Mini guide to Mount Gambier

Mount Gambier, Rich and Diverse .Blue Lake City.

A thriving city nestled among volcanic craters, underground limestone waterways and a beautiful brilliantly blue lake, Mount Gambier is a delightful stopover for travelers to the Grampians or to The Great Ocean Road. Its location nearly equidistant from Melbourne and Adelaide attracts day visitors from the cities and international tourists, as well.

Known as the Blue Lake City, Mount Gambier gets its water supply from the gem by that name which fills the crater of an extinct volcano. This lake progresses through an amazing and mysterious color change each November, becoming an astounding turquoise, reaching its peak in March, then slowly fading back to the deep winter blue, magnificent in its own right. The crater lakes district offers wonderful recreation such as picnicking, BBQ, Wildlife Park, Playground, golf course and trips to the Blue Lake.

Because Mount Gambier rests atop a huge chunk of limestone, numerous caves thread through the underground world. The system of sinkholes (collapsed caves); caves and underground water can be thoroughly explored via organized tours or on your own by self-drive tours.

Mount Gambier features beautiful gardens, some special ones thriving in large sinkholes, modern shopping, and plenty of fresh, local wine and foods.

Divers from all around Australia come to Mount Gambier to enjoy the beautiful diving under the streets of this delightful town. Although many caves riddle the limestone beneath the town, only Engelbrecht Cave can be accessed by divers. Careful training is necessary for divers to safely negotiate the vast cave complex, and visitors can view a video on just how it is done.

It takes a full 500 years for the water from Blue Lake to trickle its way to Australia.s southern ocean. Don.t wait that long to pay a visit to delightful Mount Gambier.

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