We left Cowell this morning, a beautiful calm and sunny day.
Our first stop was Port Neill, we took some pictures on the wharf. All the Towns along the Eyre Peninsula are lovely, but they are all pretty much the same. They are laid out nicely with nice wide streets, usually with trees down the middle, they have brick intersections and some have brick sidewalks. The houses are lovely and some places are bigger than others.
Tumby Bay was the next stop. We went to see The Australian Eucalypt Collection. They do electroplating organic materials and they have done some beautiful gum leaves, we bought a lovely framed picture and had them send it home. We have become very trusting in our old age, wine being sent from a Vintner and now a picture, I sure hope we get everything.
We stayed the night at Port Lincoln Tourist park. It was a huge park, right on the water. Our neighbor came over and offered us some Salmon. He caught 10 and had to give them all away. He had his limit and his wife doesn't like fish so... Dalton says they are not any Salmon species he has seen. However, he did clean them, we haven't eaten them yet, we thought we might give them to the Pelicans. Didn't want the fellow to feel bad.
We went out for a beautiful seafood dinner at the Marina. Supposed to be the best in South Australia, if it isn't sure comes a close second. We both enjoyed our meals and to finish off we played the Pokies, oh well, they say "you can't take it with you"...
We left Port Lincoln fairly late as we had to go to McDonald's to use their internet. Ours is not working. I think we are going to be stranded for the next week anyway. We are heading up the Centre tomorrow...I am behind in the blog - tomorrow is March 15th and while we are travelling we won't have any internet.
We stopped in Coffin Bay, a nice little community on the water, oyster farms. Supposed to have the best oysters in the country, Dalty said they go right through him, so I guess he can't be the judge, he enjoyed them on their way down.
There was a little building on the side of the road at a place called Colton. It was a roadside self-serve outlet that served wood fired bread via an honesty system. The bread was $3.50 a loaf and we bought a whole grain loaf, it was delicious.
We stayed the night in Venus Bay, another little spot on the water, people from all over the country come here to fish. They have to compete with the pelicans, I have never seen so many in my life and they stand nearly to my shoulder. They were hanging around because all the fishermen were coming back with their catch and cleaning them. They were feeding all the birds with the remains. What a free-for-all. Birds definitely have a pecking order, no pun intended, you should have seen some of the squabbles they would get into.
Murphy's Haystacks was something to see. It is hard to describe these big things coming out of the ground in the middle of nowhere.
South Australia reminds me of the Savannah in Africa. Not that I have ever been there but all the pictures and movies you see. It has miles of nothing but a few trees, sometimes you will see a crop, we think wheat but it is so short you can't really tell, there are a few sheep, then you go along and you will see some very green patches. There is a pipeline for water almost through the entire State. It is a very small pipeline and we don't know where it comes from or ends up. However, we see it along the most of the roads we have been on. This is one of the most diverse landscapes we have seen on our travels so far.
This just shows the vastness and the color of the ground. Everywhere you go, red dirt.
We picked up a hitch-hiker along the way somewhere, we are not sure where exactly. We have a mouse travelling with us. We were going to get a mouse trap but Dalton has found that he was in his golf bag so now we need to get an exterminator. I guess we know where Dalton's priority lies.
If this next picture doesn't scare you, I don't know what will!
All the way along they have these signs, it really creeps me out!
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