Sunday 9th December 2018 - It's still cool as we packed up to more on as we're heading towards Whyalla and not sure where our next overnight will be.

As we leave Coffin Bay with it vast oyster beds, beaches and bushland we see more kangaroos and Emus running in between the bushes, trying to avoid us. We stop a few times to wait for the animals to make their move not wishing to run into any of them, literately!!

We drive through baron and dry farmland and made our way into Port Lincoln that is said to be situated in the largest naturally protected bay in the world, three times bigger than Sydney and is the seafood capital of Australia…

Having said that we couldn't find anywhere that was open to buy any seafood as everywhere except the supermarkets and fuel stations were closed.

We parked by the harbour of this lovely town with its beautiful bay and wondered around for a while, picked up some supplies, refuelled and then continued on to Tumby Bay.

We passed through Tumby Bay with its huge silo mural, the blacksmiths and other picturesque buildings and continued along the coast with its lush green pastures making a change from some of the arid looking scenes we have seen.

It's getting late and a decision has to be made where to stop for the night so we free camp at Port Gibbon a place that used to be an old shipping port before it became a small settlement.

We drove on a dirt track that ran along the top of high sandstone cliffs and found a spot at the edge overlooking the beaches and ocean below.

We set up camp, had dinner and later sat and watched the sun set over the bay with the sandstone cliffs glowing lovely shades of orange. As the sun continued to go down, the sky deepened to different shades of pink and red that reflected off the ocean giving it a crimson hue and another impressive scene.

Monday 10th December 2018 - We left our clifftop camp and headed for Cowell known to be the gateway to the Eyre Peninsula.

We stopped and walked around this beautiful town with its magnificent old buildings dating back to the late 1800's. We dropped into the visitor's centre that was originally the old cinema with its lovely ornate ceiling and a restored projector that was used to show the town's first film.

As we left town we stopped and bought some oysters and set off for Whyalla. We drove through a landscape that looked sparse and dry with a pipeline running parallel to the road and a huge mound of iron deposits as Whyalla is an industrial town for mining, steel production and ship building.

It is also the home of HMAS Whyalla the first ship to be built in the ship yards and served in WWII as minesweeper.

Tuesday 11th December 2018 - We originally intended to travel to Mount Remarkable today but the weather is far too hot for hiking, so we have stayed in Whyalla for another day & ended up carrying out a few chores and planning the next stage of our trip.