Exploring the Eyre Peninsula

The first stop in SA was the Eyre Peninsula. We town hopped along the west coast until we hit our camp for the night, Speeds Point. It was a great spot on a cliff over looking the water. There were a few bees but we soon learnt that leaving a bowl of waters bit from camp would keep them away from us.

Camping at Speeds

The next morning we decided to drive from Speeds Point to the next town, Seale, completely on the beach. It got pretty soft at times but we made it, even stopping for a swim where the water looked divine.

We headed out to a point where a seal colony lived and it was fantastic. There were so many seals and the point offered a natural cove for the babies to practice swimming in. We spent the night at Walker’s Beach camp. It was nice but pretty windy.

Seal of approval!

The next couple of nights we spent with Gay and Emu in Elliston. The days and nights were howling with wind so it was nice to sleep inside and have some relaxing days.

Our next few nights were out in Coffin Bay National Park. Most of the park is only accessible by 4wding. The roads were ok, not too gnarly. The park was full of emus which I will never get tired of seeing.

We rocked up at our campsite at Black Springs. It was beautiful in the trees overlooking the water, that was, until we got out of the car and were greeted by BEES. We put out a bee bowl which soon was surrounded by hundreds of bees but they refused to leave us alone. It was uncampable.

We decided to move to the other end of the campsite to a horrid dusty site that at least had less bees. But even then we were forced to hang out inside of the car as they were so aggressive. We went down to the beach for a swim and even 50m offshore the bees were chasing us. We came back to the beach and our shoes and towels were covered in bees. This just couldn’t be.

Rein had the idea to check out the overflow camping which was a little away from the main campground. We found one camper there who said the bees were pretty bad. We looked around at the 4 bees at her bee bowl and the no bees chasing her…. Mate you have no idea what bad is. So we moved. The spot ended up being way better anyways, less dusty and a better view.

We spent our time in the Coffin Bay NP hiking, kayaking, fishing and exploring. The bay was full of dolphins and we even saw some seals. Our highlight was finding a massive sperm whale skull on the beach.

A couple of people were bogged coming out of the park. One family in a RAM who clearly didn’t do a lot of 4wd’ing had us giggling. The kids were crying and the wife was PISSED. Good old family fun. We got stuck behind some Victorians for a bit as they dug out their camper trailer that got bogged on the track (even though the sign explicitly said no camper trailers were permitted on the tracks, for this exact reason). They were nice though, a father and son from Ballarat on a trip together. We ended up following each other as we checked out the rest of the park, making jokes and smiling ear to ear each time we saw one another.

We spent the night at Deb’s in Coffin Bay, drinking wine and eating fish.

Our plan was to then head to whalers at the bottom of the Eyre Peninsula but the forecast said there would be howling winds again for the next few days so we decided it was time to leave the Eyre Peninsula and head for the Flinders Ranges.

Side quests update:

Flys swallowed

Rein = 4

Tanya = 0

Jetties walked

6

Big things captured

4

Artisanal goods purchased

2