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Published: April 30th 2009
Arno Bay
The boardwalk at Arno Bay wandered through the mangroves and tidal flats.
The trip from Cowell to Port Lincoln is about 160 Km and we called into Arno Bay and Tumby bay on the way.
The board walk at Arno Bay wanders through the mangrove swamp, over little creeks and comes out on the beach. It took us about one hour to complete the circuit with stops to watch the dozens of different birds.
Tumby Bay is a relaxed little fishing / holiday village and we can reccomend the Vanilla slices at the bakery.
Our caravan site at Port Lincoln overlooks Porter Bay and we can see the fishing trawlers coming and going.
Today (Saurday) we join Closeup Tuna Tours to go and swim with the tuna.
Jacquie and I both chicken out with the swimming, but Jacquie has half a nail gone and a cut finger as a result of sticking one finger a bit far out while hand feeding the tuna.
The size of the Tuna farming industry in Port Lincoln is staggering. The average farmed tuna grows to about 20 Kilos before harvesting and eats 2 Kilos of fish per day. The whole industry here needs 800 tons of fish per day to feed the farmed
Tuner Feeding
This is where Jacquie lost a bit of finger nail and she now boasts a finger sliced by a Tuna. tuna, half caught locally and the other half imported.
After this harrowing experience we needed to call into the pub to have a couple of Sav Blancs and a plate of oysters with beetroot and wasabi to calm down.
Sunday April 19th we head off to Coffin Bay. The Coffin Bay Township is very small however Jacquie manages to find the Sunday market and we replace Vicky Stopp’s AA1 Marmalade Jam with another jar we hope is half as good.
At Coffin Bay National Park we spent six hours driving through sand tracks that reveal some spectacular scenery. We get bogged in the deep sand and have to let the tyres down to 18 PSI to get going again. The effort was worth it as it allowed us to drive along the shores of secluded bays that made us feel that we were the first ones there.
On the trip back to Port Lincoln through Coffin Bay Township Jacqie convinces me that I will have a 100 years back luck in we don’t puchase two dozen oysters.
So here we are back at the Van drinking more Sav Blanc, eating oysters and wondering what
Bird Feeding at Tuna Farm
The Tuna were not the only ones that liked pillchards.
The birds swooped and plucked them from your fingers. tomorrow will bring.
Today we find the Tuna processing factory and buy a big chunk of tuna.
Tonight’s dinner is tuna sashami and tuna with avocardo, Japanese mayonaise and wasabi.
Washed down with another round of Sav Blanc, Jacqui thinks she’s in heaven.
Still at Port Lincoln we decide to go to Whalers Way which is the very end of the Eyre Peninsula.
This area requires a pemit to enter but was well worth it.
It consists of well sign posted tracks and access to scenery that is spectular.
Towering limestone cliffs carved out by the sea over many years have left crevises and little bays like nothing else we have seen.
We walked and drove up every track we could find.
Our next stop is Elliston, half way up the west coast of the Eyre Penisnsula.
This is another little fishing village set on the coast.
This town boasts it holds Australiai’s largest Salmon fish compeition.
We are staying here for two days before we head for Venus Bay, Steaky Bay and Ceduna.
The wind last night was very scary; the caravan rocked and rolled all night without any help from the inhabitants.
The
Avoid Bay
The surf changed direction as it came around the island. tourist drive around the cliff tops was about 20 Km. Scattered around the cliff top road were an array or sculptures.
The pictures show some of the art we could understand, some of the other needed different medication to what we use to understand what the artist was on about.
We are now at Streaky Bay and our caravan is right on the water edge. Five paces and we are on the sand of a big sweeping bay.
Happy hour is sitting on the beach with a glass of red watching the sunset and pelicans doing really smooth landings on the water right in front of us.
We only indended spending one day here but that has now stretched out to four days, we will head off the Ceduna tomorrow.
Ceduna overnight on Monday April 27th and the start of our Nullbour crossing.
Our first night was in Eucla and we are now in Noresman.
Todays drive was 720 km, we intended to find a bush camp but one thing let to another and we drove straight through.
One section of 160 Km is Australia’s longest stretch of straight road.
We stopped at several spots across
Fishermans Paradise
The sign says it all and by the look of all the fishing shacks it was probaly correct. the top of the bight where Jacquie met the black worm in the picture.
We now intend to spend a few days in Kalgoolie and then down to Esperance.
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