Coffin Bay SA April 3, 2015
Pulling out of the van park in Port Augusta and heading west, you immediately come to the big intersection where you have to choose: north or west, Darwin or Perth.
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| Where to? Port Augusta SA |
Having done the Darwin option in both directions we opted for the West. Actually and of course, we was always going west, so it was onto the Eyre highway, another new road and unexplored territory to us. While we are going to go all the way to the west, we are taking the scenic route down the Eyre Peninsula, past Whyalla, Cowell, Tumby Bay, Port Lincoln and on to Coffin Bay
The road is busy as you would expect, it being Easter and all. The road is also quite hilly in a lot of places, undulating actually and comes with double white lines for long stretches at a time. We drove through Whyalla, which looks like a big industrial estate making great big things out of steel, which they also make from the raw products.
Somewhere south of Whyalla we had ‘an incident’. We were approaching the crest of one of the hills when my rearview mirror was filled with a large 4x4 towing a boat intent on overtaking us despite the double lines and having no forward vision past the crest. My immediate reaction was to check the road ahead which I could now see as I topped the crest and there, appearing out of the hidden gully between the crests was a car coming right at us. I pulled over as far as I could and kept the pace on in case the idiot being me wanted to go on with it, but luckily for all parties, they pulled back just in time. Not only was he unable to pass us but his day was properly ruined when the car coming the other way lit up its red and blue lights, turned around and chased him down. Too bad, one less idiot on the road.
We went into Cowell for a break and found the locals doing Devonshire Tea for $5 a head. How could one say no? Judy and I exchanged a knowing look when she ordered two servings and was asked by the nice girl, ‘would you like scones with that?’
We were actually at Franklin Harbour, but its really part of Cowell. Only thing of interest was the pub and some gumtree flowers
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| Gumtree. Franklin Harbour SA |
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| Pub. Franklin Harbour SA |
Refreshed, we hit the road again and eventually made it into Port Lincoln, home of the most millionaires in Australia per capita, Dean Lucan the tuna fishing Olympic weightlifter and of course a nag called Makybe Diva
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| Port Lincoln SA |
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| Port Lincoln SA |
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| Makybe Diva. Port Lincoln SA |
We sat and ate our sardine sandwiches and drank our diet coke overlooking the bay, which is quite beautiful except for the all dominating silos and conveyor belts.
Despite the GPS getting into a muddle we made it to Coffin Bay and took up our spot, the only one left in the park. Its fairly close living and of course the place is crawling with fishos and kids and dogs, all of whom obviously know each other, and probably come here every year. I wonder who didn't come this year and left our spot empty?
Anyhow, doesn't matter. had a poke around the tiny town, took some snaps of an emu or two and some other little yellow things, and ate an ice-cream while overlooking the town jetty and the local fishing boats before going back to our van for the day.
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| Bird. Coffin Bay SA |
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| Emu. Coffin Bay SA |
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| Boats at Town Wharf. Coffin Bay SA |
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| Coffin Bay SA |
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