It's a great spot and we enjoyed driving around and seeing the sights. We were very impressed with the upgraded camping area at Yangie Bay and decided it would be a great spot to stay.
We were entertained by a surfer who just pulled up in his trusty ute, popped his suit on and ran down the steep cliff - with bare feet - then surfed all by himself! Darryl took great video footage but unfortunately we can't share it as he somehow lost all his photos!! Still a mystery how that happened. 😳😳. We found the spot near the beautiful sand dunes and were about to hop out and relive the fun we had there 30 years ago, when we spied a goanna - so quickly I didn't feel like walking! If Darryl had not lost his photos I could have included that here!
These Sandhills are amazing and seem to attract the sunlight!
Darryl and I decided to undertake a walk to a lookout from the campground - and Dennis and Tops planned to meet us there. So off we set - we found the lookout but it wasn't the one we thought - so there we were lots of kilometres from the lookout where we were expected. We didn't have our phones so thought the only thing to do was to retrace our steps and hope our rescuers thought something was wrong and would come and look for us! Luckily they did - but our 10 min walk turned into about an hours trek!! Darryl's day wasn't the best with lost photos, a mixed up trek plus a couple of disasters with knocking his head and looking like he's been in the wars!
We packed up and left Coffin Bay this morning and have enjoyed the journey. We stopped at Venus Bay to see the spectacular coastline and lovely bay.
We had our lunch at the iconic Murphys Hay Stack - these rock outcrops are very different.
We are now here at Smoky Bay. It's a lovely little town and we are in a little park which suits us with space by ourselves and we have a campfire. As luck would have it, there's a huge tractor collection next door - which has already been checked out! No good ones there but there could be in Haslam - Dennis seems to have a good nose for finding old tractors!
We thought we were so clever purchasing oysters from a little place in Streaky Bay - then we got here and find they are so much cheaper!! There's a lot of oyster farming here and it seems to be a very well organised business. It's a beautiful bay and the town is very tidy and neat.
Tomorrow we'll keep heading West and may even be near the WA border! Our service on the Nullarbor will no doubt not exist so this may be the last blog till we get to Esperance.
We were a little wistful knowing we were missing out on Mia's baptism as well as Sandys important celebration - plus knowing Josh and Jess were in SA but too far away to see!! - thank heavens for social media and modern communications.
We are excited to be setting out across the Nullarbor and hope that the whales are also beginning their migration!
Trust all is well and we send our love to you all,
Xxxxxxxx
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