Day 99. We have completed The Big Loop! But not before Raechel purchased some beautiful Jade jewellery items from Cowell Jade, noted for its dark green and black nephrite Jade. Up the Lincoln Highway we drove through industrial port city of Whyalla with its huge OneSteel mill and then Port Augusta with its huge coal fired power stations. We completed The Big Loop at Port Augusta and when we saw the sign pointing north to Darwin and Coober Pedy we joked about sta...

Day 98. We drove north up the Tod Highway from Coffin Bay on the inland road to small grain town of Cummin. We then turned east through beautiful rolling hills of wheat, barley and lupin crops to descend to the coast at Tumby Bay, a pretty small coastal village with a long jetty, pub and Norfolk Island pines. We walked along the beach, the colours of the clear water just amazing. We continued north along the Lincoln Highway to Cowell where we checked into the sh...

Day 97. Today we are driving down to Port Lincoln on a day trip, about 30 minutes south of Coffin Bay. The weather is a beautiful calm sunny day of 22 degrees after a low of 5 degrees. First we drove up to Winter Hill Lookout for a panoramic view of Boston Bay and Port Lincoln. Down in the town centre we strolled along the Esplanade and onto the jetty before morning coffee at one of the many cafes along the main strip. A very nice tidy town where the local peopl...

Day 96. A lovely drive from Streaky Bay down the Flinders Highway to Coffin Bay on the Eyre Peninsular. We stopped at the Elliston Bakery for morning tea, a tidy little coastal village. The freshly baked pastries were delicious. So may huge white sandhills and cliffs on the coast with green pastures of wheat, lupins, canola and sheep with new lambs inland. We encountered a huge area of limestone which covered all the fields for miles along the roadside. It remin...

Day 95. Lazy rest day after our big drive across the Nullarbor. Walked around the very pretty town centre of Streaky Bay and to the end of the jetty. Lots of lovely old 1900s houses around the town and a couple of old lofty churches and a nice pub. Lunch at the local bakery and a short drive to Back Beach, a long white sandy stretch with rolling surf, cliffs and turquoise water. The hills around the town are covered in wheat crops, very nice relaxed feel about t...