Blogs from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, Oceania

Friday & Saturday 3rd & 4th May Friday morning arrived and there was a mad dash foursome headed to the point to capture the sunrise before heading north west up the peninsular. Once out of Port Lincoln there was a great grain growing area, superior to what we saw on the east coast, but after 100ks, the landscape changed to grazing land and then stone fruit. Not the kind you can eat, thousands of white stones sitting atop of a very thin layer (if any) of top soil. One person described this part of the coast as a land of emptiness. That would be a good description. There is evidence of long abandoned attempts to farm where old crumbling stone cottages only show the chimney and fireplace. Even a stone Church in the middle of emptiness. ... read more

15th September 2012 (towards the Eyre Peninsula) We left Adelaide just before 9am and headed north towards Port Germain. We camped in the Germain Gorge free camp area, which is a nice quiet spot. We saw two snakes on the road and three blue tongued lizards (two on the road, one near camp). There are quite a few birds here too. We took a scenic drive through the gorge to Murray Town, a historic old town. The old stone cottages on the fields are very scenic, especially with the canola in flower. In the evening we listed to Collingwood defeat the Eagles on the radio while we played cards. 16th September 2012 It was an almost clear blue morning, and we saw a roo near the campsite and a large flock of emus not far down ... read more

Moving on… Port Broughton is an old favourite, and we felt we were in familiar surrounds when we arrived at the caravan park. The trip westward across Yorke Peninsula was short (about 120 kms), but it was enough to give Geoff apoplexy – 24.8 lts/100kms was the best we could do against the wind (read - cyclone). Thankfully the wind abated (mostly) and it was relatively pleasant on the west coast. Geoff and Marg got the fishing gear out and walked down to the local pier to catch a feed for dinner… it was a good thing that we emptied the wallet at the Port Victoria fish shop, as the fish were not biting where Geoff and Marg were. They were biting 50 metres closer to the beach from where G had picked, but what a ... read more

Elliston Sat 24 Mar - just a short drive today - 101klms - The Elliston caravan park is a lovely little caravan park (owner manager - when ever the owner is the manager we have found the park is run very well and this was no exception). We had planned to only stay over night but it was so nice we stayed an extra day. Did the Little Bay Cliff Top Drive and saw some amazing scenery over the cliff's and ocean. The next day we went for the Anxious Bay Clifftop drive and again saw some more amazing scenery. Again it was hard to just add a few photos of these drives (sorry there is so many but it was all just so beautiful). We were watching some surfers out in the ocean and then ... read more