Port Lincoln

Tuesday 25^th October

School work again and then off south to Port Lincoln about 220 km away.  The same boring country side of scrubby trees either side of the road with miles and miles of wheat fields beyond that.  As we got closer to Port Lincoln we noticed a slight change with a few other crops being grown.  These included oats, barley, canola, and lupin, so that made a nice change.

We arrived at Port Lincoln at about 1.00pm and were soon set up at our motorcamp on the side of a hill overlooking the bay and the headland that protects Port Lincoln from the southern ocean and making it such a beautiful natural sheltered harbour.

After a late lunch we took a drive around part of the bay and up to a lookout, before heading back into town to the Information Centre and some grocery shopping.  We had to start stocking up again after getting rid of all our fruit and vegies before crossing the border on our way into South Australia.

We didn’t want to linger outside too long with the temperature at about 15 degrees and a cold southerly wind blowing in off the sea, so after getting our groceries it was back to the van for beer o’clock.  We are booked in for 2 nights here, but by the look of things from the few brochures we got from the information centre, there’s not much to do around here.

Wednesday 26^th October

After school work we drove into town to the Visitors Centre.  We had decided to have a look around the coast line by Cape Carnot which is the very southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula.  Access to the area was through a locked gate and we had to get a key from the visitors centre.

We then drove the 30 odd km out to the cape and spent a very interesting afternoon checking out the various sightseeing spots around this very rugged coast.  A lot like the rocky rugged coastline we had seen at Albany, with huge waves smashing into the cliffs creating all sorts of interesting crevices and caves.

As well as the rugged coastline, we also spotted a couple of Emus beside the road and also an interesting little lizard well camouflaged in the sand.

Port Lincoln is home to a very busy fishing industry, and calls itself the Seafood Capital of Australia.  Sea Salmon and oysters are farmed in the bay,

and several other species of fish are caught locally. We had seen a Seafood Supermarket in town and decided we couldn’t leave town without sampling some of the local produce. We came away with some locally caught prawns and fresh fillets of snapper, which made a lovely dinner.

Tomorrow we will head up the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula to Whyalla a distance of about 270km.