A nice sunny but windy day greeted us.We had a very pleasant 2 and a bit hour drive to lovely Smoky Bay. The caravan park is great and at only $9.00/night is a bargain. We only had $11.75 so it's a good thing! Kimbo decided it was an excellent spot for fishing, so fish we did. He was out there for nearly 4 hours and only caught trumpeters - they all had to be thrown back. I caught about 5 - the huge one truly got away - the locals assure me it was a king...

OMG can the weather get any worse. Here it is the end of November and we have winter conditions happening here. I know the West Coast is renowned for its rough weather but I'm over it. We woke to terrible conditions and decided to leave Coffin Bay and see where we ended up........literally!The wind was head on and blowing a gale and some of the gusts were incredible. It took us ovdr 4 hours to do 200km and the poor bus made really hard work of it. The wi...

We got up early and had our paltry Weetbix and packed up before the rain set itn. We organised the tent fly over everything in the back to keep as much dust out as possible. Armed with our key and map we set off for Lake Gairdner. The colours of the various wildflowers was just brilliant. When we arrived at the lake there was a fox roaming around the lake's edge. There was quite a lot of water on the lake which is unusual as it is open yearly for salt f...

We set the alarm again so that we'd be up bright and early for our take 2 venture to the Gawler Ranges about 350km north. It was a fine beautiful day and excellent for travelling. The fan belt was fine and we arrived in Wudinna about 10.00am and picked up a map and some info on what to do. First we sent to Mt Wudinna which is the second biggest monolith in the southern hemisphere............I didn't know that. We walked up to the top and we could see t...

We're off after stocking up the cupboards, filling up the bus gas tank and picking up our mail we had Coffin Bay in our sights. Our phone is back in Adelaide and it should be in Port Lincoln either tomorrow or Friday. The trip only took about 3/4 hour so not a big day so won't take long to go back and pick up the phone. A lovely park with again a very friendly manager.We went for a drive out to the National Park and saw a couple that we'd met up w...