Wallaroo

The past couple of days have been super windy, so we had to take the awning down and cook inside which feels odd. We've been unable to crab, so have gone out for a couple of drives which has been good-especially with the price of diesel dropping even more. It doesn't hurt quite so much to see the gauge go down now!

On Friday we drove out along the coast road to Tickera-it's not far, but the road is right alongside the sea the whole way and there were a number of shacks and pretty bays and inlets to stop and look at on the way. Tickera itself is a little town with 70 residents. You can see it's been bigger by the number of old, closed shops, school, post office, and couple of pubs that once were.

Yesterday we drove to Port Wakefield which is North on the Other coast. It's a bit bigger -600 people, but you can see it's also been bigger with its old pubs, railway station, and shops that are now homes. It's only 98ks out of Adelaide and I really would have liked to keep going to Port Fairy (we'd have been there in time for dinner!). We had a good look around a caravan builder's yard while we were there (he builds new and sells second hand) and came away thinking we still like our layout the best with our centre kitchen over the wheels. It certainly has worked well for us.

Today we got out for an hour and a half crabbing and brought home a big whiting, 1 squid and 7 crabs. We are going to turn that into a seafood platter of crumbed whiting and calamari, crab sushi (with extra meat to freeze) and garlic prawns (we bought just over a kilo from a fisherman in town yesterday). We'll be eating that while I watch the final of Idol.