Eyre Peninsula

We were up early and on the road just after 8.00am. This is our first trip with the caravan and it towed really well. We made it to Port Augusta by 1.00pm and were able to sit between 90-100km. Lucky there were no hills to slow us down to much. Roads weren’t too bad with only a few idiots trying daring overtaking moves. The recent rains have certainly greened up the landscape a little.
We did some shopping and headed to the caravan park. A nice place next to the gulf with views of the Flinders from our spot. A dip in the pool with the kids was great and a good relief from the hot sun.



A beautiful sunny morning greeted us and after some bacon and eggs we headed of to town for a walk around looking at the old buildings and wharf. Lots of fish swimming around the old bridge.

We drove towards Whyalla and turned off to the camp site at Point Douglas. We found a nice place right at the end of the road where the Army reserve is. We have it all to ourselves at this stage. We found another place earlier that even had flushing toilets and some questionable reading material in them, well at least for under 18’s. No fishing there so we had to move on

Back on the Road Caravan in Tow.

Sorry it's been quite so long between updates but we have had several birthdays and other family commitments during december and have not travelled much. We are on the road now and apart from a little period around Australia day we will be on the road from now on so there will be plenty of stories.

Deep Creek

It seems I'm even slacker than first thought, spend enough time hanging around my brother and that can happen. It seems I forgot to post the Deep Creek Story.

We drove down to Deep Creek NP with the kids and had a bit of a look around. Unfortunately some of the tracks are closed because of the rain. We did find one nice little track to 4WD on. We decided to stay at Cobblers Hill camp ground because it is close to Blow Hole beach. We are all tenting it this trip.
Once we got set up we headed down to the beach for a fish. A blowy day and another dodge tide. It seems like this is the only time we fish. Tina caught a nice size mullet and that was all we picked up. Back at camp and some nice satays for tea.
Late that night some drunken “P” platers rocked up made some noise for a while and then crashed out.

Bacon & Egg breakfast and then off to the Deep Creek waterfall walk. A nice 2 hour round trip walk although I think we are getting a soft because we didn’t seem to power walk it to well.
After lunch the kids and I headed back to the beach in search of more fish.

Not long after we arrived we were on to some mullets with a nice 30cm one pulled to shore. The berley was working well and Kirsten and I were both getting bites. We only ended up with 3 to keep with some smaller ones sent back to the ocean. If the tide was coming in we would off been able to catch more but they followed the berley out. As we found out as a boat came into the bay and caught 10 in a couple of minutes fishing our disappearing berley slick.
A beautiful Roast on the Cobb for tea and a couple of spots of rain have started while I sit down to write this.

Up early and packed up to head back home a stop at Second Valley. Just the one squid not longer after we arrived the wind blew up.
A couple of nights at Mels and the completion of Christmas shopping completed. We headed back to Willunga for the weekend to finish off all the work on the van and car.