We've been four nights now in Walleroo on the Yorke Peninsula and are really enjoying it. The North Beach CP is great-cheap, clean, relatively empty, our site is right by the ablutions block and the path to the beach. It's about 300 metres by road around the park perimeter to that beach so launching the boat is easy. The beach is long, wide, shallow and weed free-it almost reminds me of Cable Beach in Broome but with whiter sand and minus the camels.
Walleroo is a lovely little town with a great shopping centre and 6 pubs. It's busy at the moment with trucks delivering different grains to the silos, but that doesn't worry us. Kadina 9ks away is bigger and has an excellent shopping centre although IGA here in Walleroo seems to be cheaper than Kadina's Woolworths.
We shopped in Kadina the other day and got ourselves lost on the way out. We ended up in a back street where we found a house with the most beautiful tomatoes, cucumbers and eggs for sale cheap. We'll be back over there in a day or two for more. Here in Walleroo, we saw they had fresh ducks for sale. We wanted one, but waited until the use-by date on them was up, and then got ourselves two big ducks for $9.99 each! I marinated and oven roasted one (maybe THE best duck I've ever cooked I think) then made stock from the carcass, and froze the other one for later on.
It's been windy-one night we were out after midnight securing our awning as it had blown out at the ends-I've never heard wind like it, but we survived. The last two mornings, we've got out in the boat for an hour or so crabbing, but have had to come in as the wind blows up. We've managed to bring home 6 and 5 crabs on those days though so have been very pleased with ourselves. Last night we had our favourite Garlic Baked Crab-it was delicious.
The park is cheap, the shopping seems cheap and best of all, for the first time since about April we are paying under $1.50 per litre for diesel. That's over $60 a tank full compared to the $2.35 we were paying in the WA goldfields. It makes a big difference to our budget.
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