Saturday, 27 February 2016

Fri, 26th Feb, 2016 Barker Rocks, Yorke Peninsula, SA to Port Parham foreshore, SA



20 degrees this morning with lovely clear sky and no wind at the van though still choppy on the water. Spotted the dolphins cruising past from the van as the sunlight caught their fins.

Chatted with the others for a while then packed up and headed off back through Minlaton. Across the ‘leg’ to Ardrossan – the Gulf St Vincent was brilliant blue as we came down off the hill. Should have taken a photo!!  Looking forward to coming back to Yorke Peninsula to spend a lot more time exploring and just relaxing.

Around the top of the Gulf and down to Port Parham. Found a spot on the other side of the camp area this time, next to fellow Queenslanders, David and Jenny from Buderim. They had a Nissan with a camper on its back – very neat. Similar to what Clive and Rebecca just bought but they can drop theirs off if they want to set up for a while.

Someone had a feed on shellfish called razor fish and left all the shells in the bushes behind our van.

Made some lunch and then chatted the afternoon away. They are a lovely couple – such fun. Jenny is going into Adelaide with friends for a ‘girls’ weekend of shopping while David is heading north for a motorbike speed trial thing on a salt lake. Then they are going to do the Anne Beadell Highway.

Went for a walk to check out the other campers. A lot of the people we met the first time are still here. They have been busy catching crabs and teaching the backpackers about crabbing too. Beautiful clear blue sky but the wind has made the water very choppy.

The wind has picked up so all the awnings are flapping madly. We put ours down so we didn’t have to hear it flap all night. Rang Leanne & Rick to see where they got too. Will see them on Sunday at Mt Lofty.

After tea I went down to the beach for sunset – WOW – beautiful big ball quickly descended into the water.












The wind dropped off as we went to bed but the locals had a ‘good’ party over the back. We had closed the windows from the cold wind so didn’t bother us too much.



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