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Published: August 18th 2014
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Streaky Bay
Waterfront real estate, a fantastic park to stay at. Ceduna to Streaky Bay Aug.14
After a great break in Ceduna we were ready to head for Streaky to just relax and enjoy the beach and the walks there, but first we had to get there!
Heading out of town we turned off the Eyre to follow the Flinders Hwy along the coast. Now, they say that Ceduna is the Oyster Capital of Australia, hmmm…anyway, most of the actual Oyster farming appears to be done at a small town 40klm east of Ceduna called Smoky Bay, our first stop for the day. We had been here before, but did not look around too closely, so we thought we had better do Smoky justice this trip. With a permanent population of about 200 it looks like it could quadruple during the summer months and holidays, as most of the houses are obviously locked up and most are beach holiday shacks. The beach is clean and looks to be quite safe which would help make Smoky a holiday destination, but like most towns along here I bet it is the fishing that gets people in initially. The boat ramps, huge parking bays for vehicles with trailers and the ever present jetty
Streaky Bay.
...and this is the view from our chairs as we partake of 'Happy Hour". are dead giveaways. The 200 plus population look to be all mostly employed in Oyster Farming. There are over 30 Oyster growers in the Bay producing ‘reputedly’ top quality Pacific Oysters. ‘Reputedly’, because the ones I bought in Ceduna had ‘run out’ and we needed a ‘top up’ but all the processing sheds were either closed to public sales or not open. I can reiterate that the Oysters we purchased from Baldy’s (last Blog entry, Ceduna) were fantastic so there is no reason to suggest that these would not be equally as good. Smoky looks to be a great little town thriving off Oysters and the holiday seasons, read tourists, with a good looking caravan park and General Store.
From Smoky Bay it was down the highway past Haslam and Perlubie Beaches. Not much at either of these beaches which is probably the major attraction in our eyes. Haslams’ has a small campground that is run with an Honesty Box system. A stone’s throw from the foreshore, the campground has basic facilities, a toilet, shelter shed and BBQ…bring your own water supply. Perlubie has even less in the way of facilities but an equally nice beach.
And now
Streaky Bay.
Streaky Bay Foreshore Tourist Park, right on the beach. we are pulling into Streaky Bay and head straight for our camp for the next three nights, Streaky Bay Foreshore Tourist Park. As we book in we are given our site number and would you believe it, it is right beside the one we had when we were last here, and right on the beach, very happy campers! For more detail on Streaky Bay than what I will post here refer to our last Blog here (MikeandTrishV.Travelblog.Streaky Bay). The first thing we noticed was that the temp of the water was significantly different from last time so swimming would not be on the agenda, no problem, we had great sunny weather conducive to walking and basically just sitting around. The biggest issue we had (or Trish had!) was that the one and only café (real one if you get my drift!) that served good coffee was closed for their winter break, damn, that left the option of the bakery or the takeaway-café at the park. The good news was that the Park café had a new owner and he had better than reasonable coffee so we were OK. Streaky is still a great spot, nothing much has changed here, although
we thought the historic old buildings that make up the Council Chambers had been refurbished. There were a couple of changes in the shops, new ones, but generally the town looked good, clean and prosperous. The Streaky Bay Hotel still pulls a great beer and provides a good value meal and the beach is just magical.
Besides sitting on the beach, we did a few walks including the historical buildings walk around the, mostly CBD area, that takes you to around 25 buildings. And Jackie loved the walk around the Bay to the boat ramp at Moors Landing. This place is very picturesque and as long as you can point a camera you will get a good pic, just look at our last Blog entry for Streaky that I mentioned above, but hey, the same thing happened this trip so check out the pics attached here and enjoy Streaky as we did.
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