The Eyre Peninsula

After leaving Ceduna, we turned South and headed down the Eyre Peninsula. Famous for it's seafood, though we saw more wheat than anything.

Spotting Sea Lions

We stayed for a night, at a very small township called Baird Bay, 100km’s or so down the coast.  The campsite was a small car park on the edge of town, but it did have a great view of the bay.  It also made a good base to visit nearby Point Labatt which is home to the only permanent colony of Sea Lions in mainland Australia.  The protected colony is at the base of fifty metre high cliffs but a lookout gives a good view of them.  Not sure why, but it was fascinating to watch all these lazy beasts lazing around.  

Boston Bay.  Beautiful, but cold...

Next we headed for the tip of the peninsula to Lincoln National Park, which is only a short drive from the Port Lincoln.  We camped for a couple of days on a point with views to beautiful Boston Bay to the east and the west.  We spent time fishing and caught a couple of undersized Sweep and a lot of Rock Cod (Jules hooked the first two on one cast after about 30 seconds of fishing).  No fish for dinner unfortunately.  

Yeeeeeeee!!!!

One day we went for a look at the giant sand dunes above Wanna.  There was vehicle access and we just couldn’t resist a little play... 

The original plan had been to find a nice beach somewhere on either the coast of the peninsular to spend Christmas. This could have been a great spot, but, we realised that though the Eyre Peninsula is beautiful and peaceful at this time of year. It is also a bit wet, cold and windy.  We were not inspired by the picture of us all sitting in a wind buffeted camper, staring out at the drizzle whilst we opened our pressies.  Sounds a bit like Christmas in England... but in a tent.  Time for a quick rethink of our Christmas plans...

...Time to head north again. But where? A quick look at the map and there was only one logical choice.  Alice Springs of course!  Should be warmish there at this time of year... and only 1600km’s away...