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This morning, after a great cup of coffee thanks to my aeropress and a delicious brekky of scrambled eggs, avocado and cherry tomatoes in a toasted wrap (yes we are obsessed with toasted wraps!), we left to explore Port Lincoln in a little more detail.
The weather was not great today, raining on and off through the day (and continued all night).
We walked along the foreshore, window shopping and discovering a statue of three times Melbourne Cup winner, Makybe Diva. The statue is in Port Lincoln as the horse's owner, Tony Santic is a local tuna fisherman.
After our walk we filled our gas bottle and filled the car with fuel before setting off to explore Coffin Bay, half an hour across the coast. We were only five
minutes out of town when we could both smell a very strong smell of gas and we knew the bottle was leaking. We headed back to the place we filled and ended up having to swap the bottle.
Finally we got going, finding a lookout in Coffin Bay to get our bearings and then driving along the pretty shore line - which would have been stunning with some sunshine. We ended up having a picnic lunch in a park just before the rain hit.
Despite the weather, we decided to drive to the nearby isolated
Beach of Coles Point as we wanted to check out if it was suitable to stay a night on our way up the west coast of the Ayre Peninsula. The drive was rather eerie with the rain falling and clouds sitting low on the mountains making them mysterious and spooky. Part of the way was on a dirt road that was in turn rocky and corrugated. It seemed to go on forever, but just when I had had enough of driving, we arrived at the most stunning cliff top overlooking an isolated bay beach with a mountain backdrop. We could only imagine how stunning it would be with the sun shining. We will probably come back in a couple of days.
We headed back to our home base in Louth Bay south of Port Lincoln and cleaned out our kitchen cupboards which have had a nasty smell for a few days.
Lesson learnt: if you spill powder of any sort clean it up ASAP as this was yeast that had spilled out of a container and I hadn't thought too much about it at the time and just cleaned up what I could see. I didn't realise more had spilled inside the cupboard and then had become wet and began growing, as yeast does. It really stank!
With the rain still pouring outside, we cooked a simple salmon and vegetable pasta for dinner and chilled out for the evening.
It's lovely going to sleep listening to the rain tapping away on the caravan, but I do hope we have some sunshine for tomorrow's adventures.
Sweet dreams xx
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