Coffin Bay and Elliston

We are spending more time on the Eyre Peninsula than expected. It's an interesting place that is really dry and rugged, but then has beautiful beaches, shady camp parks and amazing fishing. It has been very hot at times, but we have managed to survive by lying low during the day and being active either early morning or late in the afternoon. Unfortunately this has meant that the kids have been going to bed very late.

Coffin Bay is at the bottom of the Eyre Peninsula and is very picturesque and sheltered. Not a lot of oysters around this time of year however. We visited the National Park there and found an amazing untouched beach where we saw lots of dolphins, stingrays and big tuna all swimming in the waves. We also found a large dried out sea horse on the sand, but it was too smelly to bring with us in the camper. We made some friends at the camp park - hello to Rob and Orla! In travelling around the area, we found a very strange pig farm that also sold antiques and milk shakes. The girls thought the best bit about Coffin Bay was jumping off the jetty into the deep blue water, and diving down to see the crabs.

We have now travelled about 150km north to a tiny place called Elliston. As usual, we intended to spend a night or two here, but will stay four. We have bought ourselves a surf fishing rod and are catching salmon right off the beach (photo of Tilly holding a salmon below). There is a long jetty next to our camp park, and we have also caught some calamari but haven't quite worked out how to cook it. There has been a bit of a heat wave while we've been here, so we've been really happy to have a pool to jump into (rare in this part of the world). We are going to have a go at fishing for garfish this afternoon.
Off to Streaky Bay tomorrow, about 130km north, and then on to Ceduna.