Adelaide to Coffin Bay

We headed from Adelaide to Port Germaine and the drive was our first taste of seeing beautiful, vast scenery.  We drove alongside the Flinders Ranges where we were surrounded by salt bush and red dirt.  Port Germaine is a very quiet town with a very long pier, one pub, one milk bar and a very strange second hand shop with skeletons in the window and a sign 'I died waiting for customers'.  We went for a walk along the pier at sunset, with a view of the Flinders Ranges in the background.  It would have been very peaceful, however Flynn wanted to ride his plastic bike all the way along, so we enjoyed the scenery with a very loud 'clackety clack' (for about 300 metres)!

The next day we headed to the Mt Remarkable national park for our first experience outside of the comforts of caravan parks.  The camping ground we went to had great facilities with toilets and drinking water, and we relied on gas for the fridge and cooking, and all went to plan!!  It was a very pretty area with plenty of hiking right at our doorstep.  For those of you who know Nick well, it wouldn't surprise you that within about an hour of arriving, we have met most of the people in the campground.  So we shared the camp fire with some new friends and heard about the Eyre Penninsula and decided to take a diversion.  We learnt a lesson about how quickly we can sneak out of the caravan after putting the kids to bed- and we need to wait for Flynn's snores to start before departure; I went to check on Flynn about 20mins later and he was having a party in the pantry with a bare bum!  (Loose leaf tea seems to be a very fun thing to a two year old.)

We had a quick stopover at a pretty place called Arnos Bay to recharge phones, wash clothes and shower, then we headed to the Port Lincoln national park.  We had a fantastic time there with a few nights all by ourselves in the camp ground.  We were camped right near a cute little beach where pelicans fished in the morning, there were lots of kangaroos and emus, and we had beautiful clear nights and the stars were amazing.  Flynn loved chasing the waves and as he is telling everything and everyone to 'go away' at the moment, he was telling the waves to 'go away'.  Aidan loved crawling around in the sand and ate his fair share of sand and seaweed.  We christened our new camp oven with a roast lamb which we cooked for 3 hours in some coals, and it was delicious.  We have met a lovely family, Ross, Kristy and their three sons, and have had a chance to catch up with them at Port Lincoln and are heading to Coffin Bay and hope to see them again.

We arrived in Coffin Bay today and it is absoutlely beautiful.  It reminds me a bit of Metung in Gippsland but it has a big mountain looking over still, clear water.  There are lots of fishermen here, apparently it is good fishing.  We treated ourselves to fish and chips for dinner and the boys needed no encouragement to eat their dinner tonight, it was like feeding time at the zoo.  Aidan who had already had a big bowl of home made veggies proceeded to eat chips, some potato cake and some fish.  I don't think this is a great thing for a little bub but there is no excluding him from our dinner anymore!