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Published: November 5th 2008
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After setting up camp and eating dinner at Fowler's Bay, we went for an evening stroll along the jetty (more like a shivering walk, even though we were all rugged up!) to have a look if the few people who were braving the wind and cold were having any luck. We struck up a brief conversation with a woman trying to catch squid, although she had only just commenced.
The next day we headed down to Streaky Bay where we stayed for two nights. It was a nice spot but unfortunately the weather remained unkind to us with light showers coming through regularly and an overnight thunderstorm not too far away as well. We were still trying to dry out from Cape Arid and the Nullabor, so were a little annoyed at this occurring on such a dry peninsula. Not that we'd begrudge the need for rain in this part of the world, but why did it have to occur when we were travelling through...
The kids spent most of the time at the caravan park playground (no surprises there!), but they also threw in a couple of hand lines at the jetty one afternoon, but the cold wind
did not make it very pleasant. Thomas liked it nonetheless and keeps bugging us to fish some more.
After leaving Streaky Bay, we travelled out to Cape Bauer and also did the Westall Way loop where we stopped at the High Cliffs and The Granites. We then travelled out to the Sea Lion colony at Point Labatt and then stopped for lunch at Murphy's Haystacks.
After lunch, we drove down to Elliston and camped for the night. There wasn't a playground there, but Annelies and Thomas made a friend and had fun on the swinging tyre and playing table tennis.
In the morning we walked out on the jetty and saw quite a few Tommy Ruffs (Australian Herring) being caught as well as a Salmon Trout. We drove down to Coffin Bay and camped for the night at Yangie Bay camp ground. The rain had gone but the flies were abundant. About our only company at the camp ground were several birds, including a male and female pair of Superb Fairy Wrens, with the former continuously attacking our car mirror - we had to throw a bag over the mirror to make it stop. Thomas and Mark
did the short lookout walk and got up close to a few kangaroos.
On the way out, we drove to Point Avoid and then down to Lincoln National Park. A fresh easterly breeze was blowing, which was expected to turn to the northwest and then southwest the next day, so we spent some time trying to find a sheltered camp site. We saw an emu with three young chicks, had a look at Surfleet Cove and then went into Spalding Cove, where we stopped and listened to the Melbourne Cup - Annelies won our family sweep. It was very windy at both these places, so we ended up camping at Fisherman Point in a camp ground that seemed a bit more sheltered and picturesquely overlooked a little cove. But no sooner had we stopped than it started raining again! Fortunately the rain was mainly just light, although a good downpour gave us a little bit of grief for a while with Alex madly digging channels to divert the flood! At least it wasn't very windy and didn't last too long, so we remained dry overnight. In the morning, we woke to a fine and sunny day at last and
Coffin Bay NP camp site
Too windy for the awning! had a pleasant walk along the beach and rocks where we saw lots of birds (Pacific Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher, Pied Cormorants, White-Necked Heron & Caspian Terns). We drove up to Cape Donington lighthouse and then travelled north to Whyalla, staying at the Discovery Caravan Park. Needless to say, Thomas and Annelies spent most of the time on the 'jumping pillow'.
At Whyalla we restocked our supplies, ready for the drive up to the Flinders Ranges.
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