Blogs from Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Thursday 24th – we slept in a bit this morning – in fact we overslept! - so it was a bit more of a rush than usual to get packed up and away by 10am. But we managed it. We hadn’t used Sat Nav to check the distance to Streaky Bay and as soon as I started looking at the map I realized we had mis-calculated by nearly 100 kms. So what started as a casual drive for the day turned into a bit more of an arduous one. We made it as far as Elliston (at one time a possible stopover) before taking a break. We were still only about half way to Streaky and fuel then became a bit of an issue – not a major one as we now have two additional containers ... read more

Tuesday, 13th April, at Port Lincoln. We left the park around 10-00am and headed up the coast to Tumby Bay, a nice little coastal town where we had a look around and had lunch there. After lunch we headed back to Port Lincoln and across to Coffin Bay where we went into the National Park and into all of the little bays and beaches. Quite spectacular. We saw a 3 foot long goanna crossing the road on the way in, and at Yangie Beach we saw 6 or so emu’s feeding near the camp site. There was a 4wd tour guide taking some people around the area and he had a small joey in a sack and let him out to scratch around whilst we were there. A beautiful area and well worth visiting again. Wednesday, ... read more