Road Trip – Day 29 (April 13)

today was a day of sight seeing around Coffin Bay. Our first little highlight was seeing Emus near the aerodrome.

We drove past the Coffin Bay airstrip where we saw the emus, and headed for Kellidie Bay. I hope someone checks the airstrip for emus before landing there.

We came across a small hamlet of houses & shacks where the owners have a life tenure and pay a lease payment per year. They can catch qll sorts of fish just across the track we drove on. The lady we spoke to had been living there permanently since 1995. This is the view they have from their front porch.

The lady we were talking to owned a puppy , 7 months old, called Brandy. She wanted to play with Kurgan who also wanted to play with her.

We continued along a dirt narrow track and emerged from the bush at a beach which was about a km across from the Coffin Bay shops.

We had been told that the jelly fish have been spawning and there was a display of blue “lights” on the water from this spawning. Some of the jelly fish had been stranded on the shore during low tide. Here is one such jelly fish. Look carefully and you will see it in the picture below.

 

We saw the oyster boats going out to their farms. an example of one of these boats is below. You can see across the water and see the building of Coffin Bay where we are staying.

We left this bay and visited the pig farm as we had heard they sell their own pork products and also have a huge shed full of antiques. Here are Viv, Alan and Carol outside the antiques shed. We bought some bacon made from their Berkshire pigs.

Here are some piglets eating their lunch.

More photos of old farm machinery were taken and back to the park for lunch. After lunch I left Lance to look after Kurgan while I went with the others into the Coffin Bay National Park. More bays, more cliffs and some time watching people trying to catch salmon, we arrived back at the park tired, dusty and ready for Happy Hour.