Author(s): Danny O'Neill

Travel Literature

Australias south coast between South Australias Victor Harbor and Victorias Barwon Heads features a unique and fascinating concentration of natural scenic beauty and the nations early history. In just over one thousand kilometres are the Murray Rivers mouth, the Coorong wetlands, extinct volcanoes, deep limestone caves, The Apostles, the Otway Ranges and famous surf beaches. The author also writes about the coasts historic settlements, fishing villages, ports and lighthouses, tragic shipwrecks, and the mysterious Mahogany Ship. This is a timely book about a coast which, for the first time since Aboriginal people were forced inland at the end of the last ice age, is today threatened by rising sea levels. In telling the South Coasts story, and in retracing a barely remembered 1960s family caravanning holiday, Danny ONeill writes for anyone who ever ignored parents attempts at history lessons, or impassioned pleas to look at the countryside, on long car trips. Here, then, is what you might have missed travelling between South Australias Victor Harbor and Victorias Barwon Heads.