Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Sluggish old start this morning, but still with the clocks set back and all it was still an earlyish start. Early enough to have bacon and eggs for breakfast and some eggs that a passing Easter Bunny had left in the pantry two weeks ago. Happy Easter all! Fiddled about doing crosswords and reading for a bit as it was raining on and off. Gads, I even went and had a shower and put on some clean duds. Sometime before lunch we drove back into Port Lincoln, 'Linc' as they call it, and went straight to a nice looking cafe for lunch and a large coffee. After lunch we went to visit the Axel Stenross maritime museum, which was quite nice and again like the tram museum in Bendigo, apparently quite active in their restoration and preservation of all things related to old boats. Axel Stenross and his mate Frank jumped ship in 1927 and stayed on to become the boat builders of the district. The museum is in their old workshops, home and slipways. Lots of old boats, some fully restored,...

Bit of a dreary looking day, so we drove back into Port Lincoln to have a look about, starting with the Mount Winter Lookout, which is really a bit of a bump just behind town, and as it was hazy / overcast  the snaps are not much. Mind you, its a pretty bleak looking outlook especially to the west, behind the town. The sand-hills you can see in the distance is near Coffin Bay Port Lincoln from Mount Winter lookout West from Mount Winter lookout, Port Lincoln SA Pacific Gull, Port Lincoln SA Me reading all about Flinders at this really odd little  alley that doesn't go anywhere. Port Lincoln SA From there we went back down to the nice green strip between the row of shops and the bay and found a nice place for coffee and hot x buns. Then we went around to the i place and asked about this little marina cruise we heard about. Turned out to be leaving in 15 minutes so we hot-footed it over there. Its a little 10 seat electric boat thing piloted by Captain Fred - ...

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. 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 in...