Port Lincoln And The National Park

Port Lincoln and the National Park, the very bottom of the Eyre Peninsula.

Needing to stock up meant the trip to the supermarket and in between going to the parks place to pick up a key and get the camping site organized.

Heading out to the Peninsula was a good road, in fact paved to within 6 km of our designated camp but it does cost $12 AU per day to drive in there plus your camp site fees, good to see that money being put back in there.

Our site like all are stone based lime so harder than taking a back wheel off a Ural, luckily there were some rock 200-400 in size which we could use a gravity pegs and I tried banging ours in and they just laughed at me.     

Again we tried fishing but to no avail, only small bites.

Our next day lead us to the 5 star rated Memory Bay, a good bit of paved road then off onto sandy, rutted and potholes so great fun.

The bay is beautiful and there are only 5 sites available and it would seem you have to book well in advance…way longer lead time than we even knew about it so no chance to stay just day visit.

We did a bit of fishing, spectacular beach, beautiful weather we had a mint day out.

On our way again we were heading north west up the western side of Eyre Peninsula toward Coffin Bay, this was very touristy and spendie as expected.

From Coffin Bay heading north we were going to stop for a coffee somewhere up the coast on the way to Elliston, well that idea wasn’t great even tho I am an ideas man as there is nothing except the road.

Oh well, saved $12 bucks.

Elliston we planned to stay two nights so Ellen could continue with her work, arriving late in the day meant that night was pretty much already shot.

Ellen did her accounting thing and I attempted squidding, not success other than donating gear to the sea.

We booked another night as we really liked the place having a pub, bakery and coulas ladies and gents running the camp.

Our last day we took time out and played tourist so Ellen could see the place, she did do some work and I had a BIG sortout of our fishing kit, we had a spare line left over and gave it to the lady at the camp who in turn gave it to some kids who bought other fishing gear from her….they were over the moon at getting the freebee line.

On our way out from Elliston we did the great ocean tourist drive which encompasses works of art spread out along the coast drive.

Time to get our rocks off.