But just as a friendly reminder that 1. most of the time we don't have reception 2. we are also trying to see the sights 3. we are also trying to do home schooling 4. anyone who knows me well, knows i procrastinate…a little bit.
So we are going back to the middle of March, when after we left Adelaide, we continued on to Innes National Park which is at the very tip of the Yorke Peninsula. We stayed at the beautiful spot of Pandalowie which is near the local fishing village/camp. It was a magic spot where many fishing tours were based and many a snapper were caught while we were there. We had a great beach all to ourselves, where we fished and Paul got a glimpse of the lochness monster - who knew it travelled this far?
no one towed their boats by car here, all by tractors
Lochness monster???
After a few days here and a near run-in with an angry male kangaroo, we decided to move on. We drove through Port Augusta which wasn't too flash and continued on down the Eyre Peninsula to Whyalla. We learnt how to catch blue swimmer crabs with a rake - or Paul's version where he just steps on them with his size 12 feet, gets bitten and rakes them in….whatever works! We also met another family travelling around Oz for the year and spend most of the next 6 weeks travelling with them.
raking in the crabs - literally
Our next stop is still one of our favourites so far and it is Fisherman's Point in (port) Lincoln National Park. Again, we had this whole site and beach to ourselves (the beauty of travelling off season). Here we did more crabbing and also got some razor fish. You basically pull them out of the sand and then eat it raw like a scallop. We were camped out on the cliff top and had the best seat in the house to watch the dolphins, stingrays and other marine life. We only left when after 5 days the wind got up to 55km/hr and I was worried a branch was going to fall on our roof.
oh the serenity….
stingray
did I mention Paul (stepped on) caught some more crabs…
So the winds picked up and we continued on.
Off to yet another national park - Coffin Bay NP and camped at Yangie Bay. Notice all the national parks we are staying at -- no reception folks, no blog ;)
Another great place where we could four wheel drive on the beach and drove out to Morgans Landing and 7 mile beach. We sand surfed the dunes and dodged emus with no one else around….perfect!
poor kids are missing school- can you tell
the dunes were very steep
3 days on and we were on the move again. The next couple of camp stops were ok but not worth photographing. We did however stop at a few tourist spots along the way before we spent 4 days at Streaky Bay.
farmer's haystacks
Streaky bay - our site on the beach
We had a blast at Streaky Bay. We caught up with 3 other families and went to the 50th annual Streaky Bay (horse) races. You haven't been to a horse race until you've been to a country horse race - too much fun with great people!!
We hated to leave but we had to get a move on so Nullarbor and Western Australia here we come!
PS
This is my funny, gorgeous, single friend Kate. I haven't heard from her in awhile-- I reckon I might now as she is going to kill me.
