Hearing from Mick and Vick about some nice smoked fish at Louth Bay was enough to call in and check it out. We soon found the place that sold the fish and to our surprise he also had a small museum mainly of shells but also lots of other things including fossils. It is a very interesting stop and well worth a look if you are near. Port Lincon was our next stop and we decided to stay at the national park and unhitch to drive back into to Lincon so we could have a good look around. The Lincon NP has a great camp spots with nice clean level sites and plenty of walk trails. On one of the walk trails I went for a ride and being very rocky manage to come of ,on hitting the ground all looked OK till I realised that I had a stick coming out of my leg. Trying to pull it out was harder than it looked as I was pulling it strait out instead of pulling it the way it went in down my leg. Getting back to the van Vick did a patch up job and all is good now. The next two days we spent looking around Lincon which has a very large fishing fleet so it was my kind of town also there is a great boat museum call Axel Stenross Maritime Museum.
Axel was a shipwright on board a sail ship from Finland that paid him of in 1927 and set up a boat building and slipway in Lincon which is now the museum.
The beach at Lincon NP camp ground
Some of the fishing fleet
Some of the beautiful boats in the museum
This one is a whale chasing boat.
An old desalination contraption
After a good look around it was of to Coffin Bay and again staying at the NP this park was not as good as the last but it was only for one night. Driving around the park next day we saw some very spectacular coast line with the most lovely beaches. Coffin Bay is the capital of oyster farming and like most of the coastal towns a great place for summer holidays.
Oyster farms
Point Avoid at Coffin Bay NP
Avoid Beach
After Coffin Bay we headed up the coast and came across this little cottage that was used by travellers as a stop over and has been restored by the community.WE stayed a night at Sheringa Beach for a night up on the cliffs and was great to listen to the roar of the surf at night and then walk along the beach in the morning. The next day we moved on checking out Ellison , the cave at Talia and then stopping at Venus Bay where tonight we will catch up with Ian who brought the cray boat I use to skipper for 15 years.
very specky
the old restored cottage 1860s
Vick loved the floor
Sheringa Beach
looking out from inside Taila Cave
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