Coffin Bay Week 2

I've been a bit slack with the blogging, but Coffin Bay has been a really quiet time for us.

We booked for a week originally, but extended that to two . We now leave here on Monday 3rd of November.

The last 9 days have been spent fishing (not too successfully though) and relaxing. We've been twice into Port Lincoln to shop-it's a good shopping centre. We've been out for drives to various beaches and bays, did the Red Hat Societies car boot sale and the local market on Sunday, and today went out to check out the Coffin Bay National Park.

On one of our drives, we came across a tree heavily laden with quandongs, so stopped and picked a heap. I tasted one to see if they were OK and while they were tart, I figured they were ripe. I got home, spent ages finding a chutney recipe on the internet, then started to take the fruit off the seeds. I'd done a heap when I noticed all the fruit was infested with tiny maggots. Yuk, yuk, yuk!!!! So all my hard work went straight into the bin.




The national park today was stunning. It's only a couple of ks from town to the park gates, so we drove out for a look at all the stuff on the sealed road today. We left here round 2pm and were home just before 6. Next time, we'll go out and do the 4WD stuff. I didn't know the park existed before we got here anwas suprised at how beautiful the bit we saw today was. We saw lizards (blue tongue and goannas), emus and kangaroos, quite a few wild flowers and some lovely birds.