Mount Gambier

Mount Gambier, South Australia

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Mt Gambier Australia Travel Guide

[Last updated July 10, 2021]

Here, you’re on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, smack in the heart of it. It’s a town riddled with limestone caves and, remarkably, sinkholes turned sunken gardens, hundreds of feet deep, layered with lush foliage – typically, Australian tree ferns and hydrangeas. Just head down Jubilee Highway east from town a bit and you’ll come upon Umpherston Sinkhole, the most famous of them all, with viewing platforms, stone steps and pathways leading down into it, and even a sunken, sheltered barbecue area and a kiosk where you can get a liquorices- or tropical fruits-flavored ice-cream cone to lick to death. In town, you can poke around in old-fashioned shops and guzzle on-tap lagers at the humming pubs, and on the periphery you can picnic by one of the crater lakes – Blue Lake being the biggest draw – and dive into the Piccaninnie Ponds to discover an underwater rainforest with 10-foot-high seaweed that’ll totally blow your mind! Truly, we're talking a marine and nature wonderland that'll leave you stoked!