Eyre Peninsula News

English explorers are a funny lot, Flinders named Port Lincoln after his home town. I'm not sure if there is anything here that resembles Lincoln, England. First of all it's a beautiful place with not a carrot field in sight. If you do visit make sure you shoot up to Mount Winter and see the incredible views of sea and land which spread for miles around. Come to think of it a lot of it is very flat just like Lincolnshire, no carrots though, only Finn.

Best place to start in Port Lincoln is the Axel Stenross maritime museum and watch the video that fills you in on the history of the place and why they love tuna so much...it makes them very rich. If Col and Dot are on duty at the front desk they will tell you what is worth while doing and seeing. Col is about 80 and advised me not to dive with the White Pointers so I didn't. He seemed too sensible to ignore and besides they charge a small fortune for the privilege.  Instead we went to the fish shop and bought some flake, bread crumbed it and ate it. That's the closest we will get to a shark thanks. The king prawns and Coffin Bay oysters were pretty good too.

Not sure why Coffin Bay is named so but I do remember a surfer recently got attacked by a shark there. The kids were being irritating so I suggested that we go for a swim there. No sharks there that day but there were plenty of jelly fish which scared Marley and Callam but Finn, yes 'ol Finny boy just went and picked one up and chased his brother and sister with it. Finn is becoming one with the sea after catching a blue swimmer on a hand line off the jetty at Port Lincoln.

We have been in Streaky Bay for three days now and had some little adventures around the rugged coastline here. I think it would be better that I just paste a few pics in here rather than bore you all with some description of the Bauer Loop drive and the snow white sand hills which the kids went down on their boogie boards. I also did my Steve Irwin piece on the double headed, pine cone, shingleback lizard. You can see the video here, not very informative and quite childish really but funny according to those that were there.

The Nullarbor beckons. We will take two days to cross it, not sure where we are stopping although I am sure we will not be cramped for space. So in the next couple of days expect the usual shots of straight roads, Nullarbor signs, shoe trees and probably the start of my very own GPS tree seeing as bloody Neville Navman has decided to expire so I will ceremonially peg the sod to a rock I suppose, if I can't find a tree. Off to bed to watch Wolf Creek. Sweet dreams and happy birthday Brad, I think you are now older than me. Cheers, Dave.