South on the Eyre Peninsula

Struggling awake this morning, two and a half hours earlier than Western Australian time, we packed up the van yet again.  We've decided we need to find a more sheltered site for Christmas, and Grant was determined to get us moving.  I sent Joseph across the road to the beach with a red bucket, just to see what the birds would do, and he was swooped by some seagulls, eyed by some ospreys, but it was when a big pelican skidded across the water in front of him that he decided he'd better come back while he could.

On the way south along the Flinders Highway we took a small detour to Murphy's Haystacks, a group of rocks sticking out of the ground.  The name came because a farming expert, driving in a carriage a distance away, pointed out these rocks as a great example of how to correctly make hay.  The owner of the land was Murphy, hence Murphy's haystacks. 

Eyre Peninsula is full of grazing lands, and fields that look like they recently held wheat.  In places there are very few trees.  We drove south past Anxious Bay and Mt Misery to Coffin Bay on the other side of which is Perforated Island and Avoid Bay (sounds like Matthew Flinders had a great trip in 1802 mapping this coast).  Next we went across to Port Lincoln on the east side of the peninsula, and then out to Lincoln National Park.

We are camped in Surfleet campground, having pulled into the last spot near to the beach.  There are only 6 spots so it doesn't feel crowded, and the others all look like grey nomads...I was hoping for a few kids for ours to play with, but we'll see.   There is a shallow bay with lovely water, and some very pushy kangaroos that look like they are used to being fed. We had to scare one away from the door of our van when he seemed to want to come inside.

We had a lovely swim, a shower that Grant hooked up for us, dinner a bit earlier than last night, then pulled all the curtains and closed the van up to get everyone into bed a bit earlier.  The daylight saving means it's light until 9.30pm, a bit too late for everyone here, and we are having a bit of car lag again from our change in time zones.

We think we need a bit of a rest from driving, so we're stopping here over Christmas.  Grant wants to stay to for five nights, but that seems too long to me, so we'll see how we go.

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Vicki