Thursday 6 December 2018
Today turned out to be a travel day. Not necessarily how it started out but that is how it ended up. We woke to a very windy morning with temperature not as high as we were expecting. Or so we thought. We headed out of the National Park as the forecast was for Severe Fire Warning. They ask that you don’t stay in the park with this fire rating. So head out we did. We would have liked a swim before we left but after yesterday’s beautiful conditions we didn’t bother. We should have stopped at the beach we swam at earlier yesterday but I made a poor decision there. Oh well. It happens sometimes.
Once we got back to Coffin Bay I bought some more local oysters for dinner tonight. Yummy!
We then headed on a scenic drive north west to Elliston. In hind sight another bad decision as there really wasn’t much to see along the way and it was further than we thought. After a quick swim at an average location we headed back east. Halfway back I realised I had left my oysters out of the fridge when we got a drink at Elliston. Bugger, bugger, bugger. I had to throw them out.
We decided to drive back to the coast at Whyalla as it was still 37° at 7pm. We were very grateful for the air-conditioning in the car and the couple of ice blocks we had during the day. We arrived at Whyalla at about 7.30p and were happy there was a slight breeze off the water at the caravan park. After dinner we had a lovely walk along the foreshore.