Denial Bay Jetty Carpark, SA (perfectly legal)

Day 14 – 2^nd Mar 2011

Denial Bay Jetty Carpark, SA (perfectly legal)

Visited:

Streaky Bay – Cape Bauer Loop Drive (Hallys Beach, Whistling Rocks & Blowholes, Cape Bauer)

Haslam – nice quiet little beach, nice spot for s simple holiday shack

Smoky Bay

Wittlebee CP – short walk

Thevenard

Ceduna

Nadias Landing – first camping preference but too windy

Denial Bay – Camped

Whistling Rocks

Haslam Beach

Smoky Bay

Wittlebee CP

Sunset at Denial Bay

Streaky Bay Caravan Park, SA

Day 13 – 1^st Mar 2011

Streaky Bay Caravan Park, SA

Drove to Streaky Bay had 0 km’s left in the fuel tank, just made it.  A day of catching up on chores.  Did the washing, shopped and cleaned the van.  Walked in to town, Nele said I spent too much time in Mitre 10 (1hr ½). That’s normal isn’t it, after all I was trying to make some adjustments to the van that would make her life easier (fixing a drawer?).

Streaky Bay

Tractor Beach, Streaky Bay, SA

Day 12 – 28^th Feb 2011

Tractor Beach,  Streaky Bay, SA

Visited:

Talia Caves (woolshed cave & the tub)

Venus Bay – South Head Walking Trail (spotted some dolphins)

Port Kenny

Murphy’s Haystacks

Point Labatt CP – had a look at the sea lion colony

Sceale Bay

Streaky Bay - Westall Way Loop Drive (Speed Point, High Cliff & Tractor Beach)

Talia Caves - Woolshed Cave

Talia Caves - The Tub

Venus Bay

Murphy's Haystacks

Sea lion colony - Point Labatt CP

Sea lion colony - Point Labatt CP

Speed Point

Walkers Rock, Lake Newland Conservation Park, SA

Day 11 – 27^th Feb 2011

Walkers Rock, Lake Newland Conservation Park, SA

Had breaky with Peter and Paula before saying goodbye.  We were treated to a wonderful breakfast of poached eggs with spinach and chilli – beautiful.  Thanks Peter and Paula for your hospitality we had a wonderful time, thanks for the homegrown tomatoes, chillies, basil, spring onion, lemongrass and of course the left over whiting we had caught.

Visited:

Leo Cummings Lookout – thanks Peter for the tip for viewing the nest

Sheringa Beach

Locks Well Beach – saw some large salmon schools right on the beach, would have been a sure thing if we had dropped in a line, they looked pretty big.

Elliston – scenic drive – sculptures on the cliff

Camped at Walkers Rock in Lake Newland CP – had a swim and watched a beautiful sunset.

Leo Cummings Lookout

Leo Cummings Lookout - Osprey nest

Locks Well - salmon school (the dark patch in the water)

Elliston - sculptures on the cliff

Elliston - sculptures on the cliff

Elliston - sculptures on the cliff

Walkers Rock beach, Lake Newland CP

Sunset at Walkers Rock

Peter & Paula’s Shack (P&P’s Shack & Breakfast), Coffin Bay, SA

Day 10 – 26^th Feb 2011

Peter & Paula’s Shack (P&P’s Shack & Breakfast), Coffin Bay, SA

Went fishing as they say.  Spent the whole day out in the boat and caught some King George Whiting, Flathead, sandcrabs and to Peter's disgust trumpeters which we used for crab bait.  During the day Peter showed us some sea lions and some dolphins paid us a visit riding the bow waves.

The day's catch produced a lovely dinner, starting with crabs for entrée with flat head and whiting for mains.  Peter showed us how to scale and fillet the whiting, clean the crabs and prepare a whole flathead.

Sea lion

Captain Peter

Dolphin

Fishing

Catch of the day

Peter & Paula’s Shack (P&P’s Shack & Breakfast), Coffin Bay, SA

Day 9 – 25^th Feb 2011

Peter & Paula’s Shack (P&P’s Shack & Breakfast), Coffin Bay, SA

Explored Coffin Bay NP – pulled up at golden island lookout for breaky.  Point Avoid, Templetonia Lookout.  Drove to Mount Dutton Bay, Farm beach, Frenchmans, Coles Point, Mount Greenly.  Relaxed in the arvo in coffin bay, had a swim and read and then caught up with Peter for tea at his place before the anticipated fishing trip the next day.

Golden Island Lookout, Coffin Bay NP

Point Avoid

Coffin Bay NP

Farm Beach

Farm Beach - near the making of Gallipoli movie

Mount Greenly

Yangie Bay, Coffin Bay National park, SA

Day 8 – 24^th Feb 2011

Yangie Bay, Coffin Bay National park, SA

Walked from Yangie Bay to Long Beach (20km’s return) – tough walk, fairly monotonous and too shallow and salty to swim at Long Beach – bugger.  I wouldn’t recommend this walk, however good exercise. 

Spent the arvo relaxing at the campsite

Long Beach, Coffin Bay NP

Kangaroo at Yangie Bay Campsite

Sunset at Yangie Bay

Yangie Bay, Coffin Bay National park, SA

Day 7 – 23^rd Feb 2011

Yangie Bay, Coffin Bay National park, SA

Left Lincoln National Park and caught up with Peter for lunch at the local café hotspot – good pizzas.  Decided we would catch up on Saturday at Coffin Bay as we are invited to go out fishing on Peter’s boat – Awesome.

Picked up some local squid and cooked up a Thai stirfry for tea - beautiful.

Drove to Coffin Bay NP and stopped at Kellidie Bay Conservation Park Lookout.

Kellidie Bay CP Lookout

Surfleet Cove, Lincoln National park, SA

Day 6 – 22^nd Feb 2011

Surfleet Cove, Lincoln National park, SA

Rode our bikes to Fishermans point (12 km) and then walked to Cape Donington and Yachties Beach (12 km) and then had to return home.  Overall we rode 24 km over corrugated dirt road and walked 12 km.  Sore backsides and feet by the end of it.

Nele got excited when she saw some kangaroo and an emu even though she’s seen them plenty of times, typical Europeans.

Bike riding in Lincoln NP

Fishermans Point Beach

Surfleet Cove, Lincoln National park, SA

Day 5 - 21^th Feb 2011

Surfleet Cove, Lincoln National park, SA

Visited:

Port Lincoln – food shopping

Bushwalked to Stamford hill (5.9km return).

Setup our tent and mozzie-screen connection to the van for the first time, gave us a little more breathing room

Surfleet Cove Campsite, Lincoln NP

Surfleet Cove Beach

Stamford Hill Lookout

Louth Bay, SA

Day 4 - 20^th Feb 2011

Louth Bay, SA

Visited:

Arno Bay – boardwalk in the rain – nice short walk across the mangroves

Port Neill – town lookout and short walk / carrow wells

Tumby Bay – lunch / islands lookout / tourist drive to Red Cliff

Louth Bay – camped / short walk

Arno Bay boardwalk

Port Neill

Tumby Bay

Tumby Bay

Point Gibbon “the knob”, SA

Day 3 - 19^th Feb 2011

Point Gibbon “the Knob”, SA

Visited:

Point Lowly - lighthouse

Whyalla – went to the lookout with views over the port and town

Lucky Bay

Cowell

Port Gibbon - camped

Ran into a couple of fishermen at our campsite who were kind enough to give us some freshly caught Snapper which we tucked into for tea.

Fishermen at the Knob

Sunset at the Knob

Fitzgerald Bay, SA

Day 2 - 18^th Feb 2011

Fitzgerald Bay, SA

Cracked a windscreen on day 2 – Awesome – just after Port Augusta on the Eyre Highway a truck spat a rock into our windscreen, on a bitumen road - can you believe it.

Absolutely poured all day as we travelled to Fitzgerald Bay, 50mm fell across the Eyre Peninsula- good day to be driving.

Visited Snowtown and Port Germein (Australia’s longest wooden jetty) along the way.

Well we spent our first night in the van at Fitzgerald Bay Campsite (no. 662 in the Camps book).  Pulled up along the water edge with views of the coast as we sat and tucked into some good old spaghetti bolognaise – this is the life.

Port Germein

Cooking tea

Fitzgerald Bay