Eyre Peninsula SA

Eyre Peninsula is certainly a great place to stroll around for a while. I might stay longer.
After leaving Haslam I made my way to Streaky Bay where I had lunch on the foreshore making friends with the seagulls. Bought a few groceries and took a few photos before moving on to Murphy's Haystacks where I spent a bit of time taking photos but didn't stay the night. Maybe I should have, might have to go back.
Then on to Elliston for more photos, being a weekend there was not much activity around the town, so I moved on to the Drystone Walling overnight camp. All this took the whole day and was worth it just driving around seeing all the sights and sites.

Streaky Bay

Murphy's Haystacks



Elliston

I wonder if this old fellow drowned while fishing off these rocks.

My little friend at Haslam SA

This little fellow was near the drinking water tap when I wandered down to fill my container. I tried to take photos but he wandered off. While I was filling I noticed he had come back and was standing beside my foot. I realised he must be thirsty. So I left the tap running for a little while to fill a hollow with a little pond for him. He immediately came into the water and started drinking. It was so obvious then he was thirsty as he was slurping continuously for some time. Thankfully I had brought my camera with me and got some great photos.

Not sure if he is a blue tongue lizard or a shingleback, but I suspect they might be the same anyway as he looks like both.
These photos have been uploaded on here in the order of how the events unfolded. So lucky to get all these photos.

Now in November - Now in South Australia

Only a few days in to November and I'm now down the bottom of Eyre Peninsula. Had a successful entry into SA going through quarantine all good. Asked about my honey but that was okay unless I went to Kangaroo Island. The quarantine to go into SA is actually at Ceduna whereas  the quarantine to enter WA is at the other end of the Nullarbor.
From there I went to the BP Service Station where I spent a couple of hours as they had everything I needed for the day. Morning Tea, Drinking Water, Dump Point, Fuel and a beautiful hot shower. And friendly staff, one who makes particularly good cappuccino .
From there I headed into town looking for Toyota, unfortunately they weren't able to fit the van in for a service for at least a week so had to give them a miss and since booked her into Pt Lincoln. I sat on the foreshore having lunch with a great view and lots of seagulls who were watching keenly at my fruit cake. Spent the rest of the day wandering around the town getting a good idea of the lay out items of interest.

The gulls who joined me for lunch.

 The camp I stayed in overnight.

 

Found a great spot for an overnight camp just outside the town, less than 10 ks, heaps of room.
In the meantime I had been through the breath testing roadblock twice. They were actually drug testing. Did the breathing thing the first time and the lovely cop gave me directions to Toyota as I had been looking at that time. The second time was as I was leaving so didn't get tested again, just a warning I was going a bit fast, over 25ks an hr. Hadn't even realised as I was only crawling.

Smokey Bay. These Everlasting flowers were growing everywhere.

The next day I headed down the coast , first having lunch at Smokey Bay, a quiet little beach town with quite a few new houses. Must be anticipating some activity in the future.




I ended up for the night at Haslam where there is a great park right in the middle of town, stayed 2 nights as the weather turned a bit wet and cold. $5.00 a night donation. Not a lot there, a small fishing town with a few boats and tractors but looks like no one even lives there. Never saw another sole except for the 15 or 20 campers who where in the same park. Plenty of room in what I presume must be an old parking area as there is an old shed there and a pathway to the toilets and beach.

Plane I saw going overhead leaving a great vapour trail

This is cuttlefish, been dumped under the edge of shed.