Coffin Bay

Our last day in Louth Bay turned out to be very successful for me as I caught my first squid! It was a ripper big one too - rather to Darryl and Dennis's dismay as they caught none. To add insult to injury, a young boy next to us was pulling them in one after another - proving you do just have to be lucky!! 

It was wonderful to wake up Friday morning and learn that big rains had come to our area - Trevor won't have to worry about watering for a while!!

          

We moved onto here at Coffin Bay which is a great little town and much more developed since we were last here.  

               

           

We set up in our usual unpowered spot away from the regimented powered sites and we're happy to be able to have a campfire. Dennis and Darryl's electrical business saw them replace a plug for Dennis's indicators and source out what blew a fuse in our van. It was a faulty wire in our car fridge so the clever chaps were able to fix it all. Meanwhile Tops and I hit the laundry!!

We toured the town and purchased some oysters and prawns to supplement the squid and four fish caught off the jetty. We are getting very used to this delicious seafood.

We toured the area and at Farm Beach, Dennis was able to eye off the tractor collection there - many of them in very poor condition!

       

We travelled 4kms of very rough road to Gallipoli Beach - where they filmed the movie years ago. To mark the centenary of that battle, they are celebrating ANZAC day at that site and we met the people getting it organised for Tuesdays service. It was most interesting to talk to them and to see the landscape which closely resembles the Gallipoli Beach in Turkey. It would be a great experience to be at that service as they will have four horses representing the Light Horse Brigade, plus a fly over of different planes. 

     

Imagine trying to scale these cliffs whilst under attack from above!!

We were fortunate to witness a pod of dolphins rounding up fish and frolicking in the shallows! 

        

Our picnic lunches have been ramped up a bit since the purchase of tablecloths!! It's actually quite practical as it keeps our food off less clean tables! 

      

Tomorrow we will explore the national park then continue on our way west. 

We've been rather fortunate with the weather as we're still in shorts but think those days may be numbered!! We hope everyone is well - till our next blog, love from the happy campers! 

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