I woke up at 6:40am this morning and didn’t want to get up as I was comfortable and warm in bed. Unfortunately, nature forced me out of bed and when I returned to our camp from the loo, James and the dogs were on theirway out to meet me. I gave the dogs a wee walk while James went off to the loo. We had breakfast and then packed up camp in about half an hour. Once the camper trailer was hooked up to the car, we went off and had our showers before leaving the caravan park.
Ceduna CBDJames parked in town and waited with the dogs in the car while I did some grocery shopping. It was about 10:30am when we finally left town and headed west until we came to the turnoff heading south on the Flinders Hwy. We stopped at Smoky Bay about 38 kilometres south of Ceduna, and had some lunch before looking around the small coastal town.
Smoky Bay foreshore
Another 70 kilometres south brought us to the lovely coastal town of Streaky Bay (P.S. James was so looking forward to seeing all the streakers on the beach but it must be then wrong season for them as we didn’t see any).
The next stop brought us to the whistling rocks that really did whistle a deep moaning sound made by the waves gushing under the coastline and rushing through the gaps in the rocks. We also saw a lonely seal diving for dinner close to where the waves rolled over the shallow caverns just beneath the surface of the water and crashed against the cliffs.
The blowholes were at the other end of the boardwalk. There were about a dozen holes in the rock surface where the water was forced through creating blowholes. Unfortunately, the waves weren’t coming in at the right angle today, to see the blowholes in action.
We then went on to Cape Bauer where we caught a view of Olive Island named by Matthew Flinders after one of his artists. The views of the ocean and the rugged coastline.
The road then led past low marshlands covered in shallow pools of water. We pulled in to an area overlooking the coast where we thought might be a good place to camp but as our small gas cylinder was empty we decided that it might be better staying at the caravan park in Streaky Bay instead to get the gas refilled and so we can leave the camper in safety to go exploring the area more closely over the next couple of days.
The caravan park was very pretty and was located right on the beach. We got a lovely camp spot overlooking the ocean and close to the amenities block. It didn’t take long before we were set up and sitting to watch the beautiful views.
The only downside to the day was when I tried to download the photos from the camera onto the computer and it would do the job. I ended up downloading the photos on James computer but still saved them on the camera. I then closed down my computer and restarted it and luckily the photos downloaded successfully the second time.
I phoned Mum & Dad to let them know where we are and how our trip is going so far. Then I phoned Natalie to let them know we were on our trip as she didn’t know when we were heading off.
Around 8pm it started to rain but at least it wasn’t very cold tonight.
Animal tally:
1 seal, 12 pelicans, dozens of seagulls
Another day closes for the Short & Sweets
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