30 kilometres south of Mt Gambier, Port MacDonnell’s importance as a border trading port might have diminished, but the off-shore harvests of rock-lobsters has kept the small town on the commercial and recreational fishing map. The port’s lobster fleet, in fact, is the largest in the state.

The National Trust classified, 28-room Custom House stands as a reminder of the halcyon days when the port was an inter-state clearing house, while the Maritime Museum preserves a photograph record of the district’s development and a number of artefacts from local shipwrecks. A couple of kilometres out of town stands Dingley Dell, the restored, white-washed cottage which was home to celebrated poet and horseman Adam Lindsay Gordon.

Thirty kilometres south of Mt Gambier, Port MacDonnell’s importance as a border trading port might have diminished, but the off-shore harvests of rock-lobsters has kept the small town on the commercial and recreational fishing map. The port’s lobster fleet, in fact, is the largest in the state. The National Trust classified, 28-room Custom House stands as a reminder of the halcyon days when the port was an inter-state clearing house, while the Maritime Museum preserves a photograph record of the district’s development and a number of artefacts from local shipwrecks

The Customs House is a reminder of the 1860s when this little port was the second busiest in the colony. Piccaninnie Ponds has several underwater caves popular with divers with its spectacularly clear water.

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