Port Lincoln - Streaky Bay SA - Hot and sunny - Temps 33C

We went for an early morning walk before packing up and hitting the road up the western side of the Eyre Peninsular.  We side-tracked into a few villages and beaches along the way.

Port Lincoln
Quite safe to leave your boat by the shore

 

 

 

 

 

The Coast Guard Boat at Sunrise

A pelican waking in the sunrise

Note of Interest re UK connection with Port Lincoln.
Matthew Flinders explored & charted this coastline for Britain.  He was so impressed with this area that he named it Port Lincoln after his home in Lincolnshire.

Mill Cottage Museum in Port Lincoln is an old pioneer home built in 1866 for Joseph K Bishop at a cost of 65 pounds sterling.  The Bishops were one of the first settlement families in the area.  They came on the saililng ship "Dorset" under the command of Capt John Bishop. Joseph was the son of Capt John Bishop. It is one of Port Lincoln's few remaining early buildings.

Capt. John Bishop built a home on Tasman Terrace and named it Over Court in memory of his wife's family home in Gloucester, England.  Unfortunately this was demolished in 1940.

Leo Cummins Monument Lookout

Linnie at same Lookout

We hit the road and called in at various villages along the way finishing up at Streaky Bay named by Matthew Flinders because the water looked streaky.  On the way we side-tracked to Sceale Bay which a fellow traveller told us was a pretty freebie for a night or two.  It turned out to be a bum-steer and took us about 60km out of our way on rough dirt roads.  The camp-site turned out to be in the scrub without a sole in sight!  We gave it a miss ending up taking the last van site at the very crowded park at Streaky Bay.  Believe it or not on this isolated dirt track we hit roadworks with an even rougher detour on which our extended caravan wing mirror fell off.  We had to stop to retrieve it only to meet up with a big truck coming the other way on the detour as we had taken more than the time allowed by the traffic control lights!!!!!  Luckily the nice trucky pulled into the bush to let us pass and radioed his companion in an even bigger truck to stop where he was on the "main" road to let us through!  Who would believe that could happen in the back of beyond ie in Woop Woop!!!

(The road works consisted of grading the dirt road - so at least we had a smooth run from there into Streaky Bay).

Streaky Bay Pub

On the way we saw an amusing signpost miles from anywhere - it said "To No Where Else"