Coffin Bay

We drove from Venus to Coffin Bay this morning. I think it was about 250ks so just a nice drive really.

Actually, it's a lovely drive with views of the ocean, a number of salt and fresh water lakes, tiny towns, deserted stone cottages, dry stone walls and good and bad farm land along the way. We both really enjoyed it as we can't remember coming this way 6 or so years ago.

After partially setting up, we drove 45ks into Port Lincoln to do some shopping and collect some mail David had forwarded on to us. It was good to get into a Woolworth's and do some serious food shopping as we were completely out of fresh fruit and veg. We were pretty excited to buy a fresh duck and he'll be dinner tomorrow night. I love South Australia as they have great turkey and duck in the supermarkets.

Coffin Bay is beautiful. It's famous for oysters and the farms are within wading distance from the shore. Oysters are around $5 per dozen so we better have some while we're here. I'm not fussed on raw ones, but don't mind them Kilpatricked and my mate Peter has a smoked oyster recipe I'm keen to try. It looks like there is lots of water for us to explore and Russ has the trailer, boat and motor all sorted and ready to go in the morning. We've booked for a week with an option to extend.