Blogs from Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Thursday morning we left camp armed with our trusty local tourist map and an overwhelming desire to ride several of the "loop" roads indicated on said map. Boy, were we wrong. Our first stop was a hill with huge granite boulders that had been carved and weathered over millions of years. These boulders are spread over quite a few hectares and although the hill is only small, it offers a commanding view over the very flat landscape. Granite, as you know is really incredibly hard and considering the erosions is caused by wind carrying dusty sand and small particles it is amazing to see the end result. We will put a couple of photos on Facebook. We then resumed our loop road adventure and turning from the road out of the haystacks to continue, the road ... read more

Oh Lord, Won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porches. I must make amends. December 8 our Mercedes land yacht is anchored in the caravan park at Peaceful Bay on the Southern Ocean. The sound of surf breaking can be heard coming from a beach where the white sand has been pushed by wind and tide from the restless Southern Ocean into burms along its edge producing a garden of succulent green saw grass contrasting the brilliant blue sea with the white of breaking waves and the tan of exposed iron stained Canadian shield granite poking through the sand. This view is a few short steps from our campsite. We have an awning out the side under which we have attached a windowed fly bag. Theoretically the flies can’t get in and ... read more

Day 17 of our adventures and we were up bright and early again, or so we thought! There must have been 20 caravans at the Nullarbor roadhouse that night and all were gone by the time we were showered and had the campsite down! We hadn’t far to go before we reached out first destination of the day anyways! The Head of Bight was only about 20 km’s from where we slept and that was where we went first. The Head of Bight is a head, much like any at home, except that here there were exquisite views and apart from that it is where well over one hundred whales came each year between May and October to give birth to their young and nurse them until they are old enough to fend for themselves. It ... read more

This Blog entry covers our stay in Streaky Bay from the 3rd Nov until leaving on the morning of the 8th. I had been looking forward to Streaky Bay for quite some time having heard many great stories about the town ....and we have not been let down !. Nestled on the coastline the picturesque town of Streaky Bay derived its name because of the streaks in the water across the bay caused by the reflection of light and seaweed. In 1839 Edward John Eyre made camp about 3 klms from Streaky bay where he found a permanent waterhole know as "Cooeyanna" and today this can still be seen and is now known as Eyre's Waterhole. Streaky Bay is the major service centre for the surrounding rural district. Sitting here typing watching the sun go down ... read more

Adelaide to Streaky Bay Adelaide airport was our first stop for the day to drop off Denise for her return trip to Melbourne. It was fantastic having Denise make the effort to join us for the grad, and were very impressed by the quantity of sleep we achieved when sharing the camper – unlike previous family holidays in the boat due to excessive snoring from one or more family members! On our way through Port Augusta we stopped for lunch and fuel -50.69L @ 151.9c/L We continued on our travels and noticed some very pretty pink and blue salt lakes at Lachiel, then couldn’t miss the large Australian Farmers statue at Wudinna. Also, on big statues, we stopped in at Kimba to check out the big Galah – which is yet to make presence on our ... read more