Lincoln National Park, Lincoln Lookout, Coffin Bay, Walker’s Rock, Talia Caves, Murphy’s Haystack and Streaky Bay,

Saturday 31^st March,
Sunday 1^st April and Monday 2^nd April:

Lincoln NP gave us a peaceful rest for the night. We stayed at Surfleet Bay. Chris enjoyed a swim after resisting the fairly cool waters and then we strolled along the bay and a bush trail to get a little exercise and stretch our legs. The next day we travelled back to Port Lincoln to the city's lookout 'Winters Hill' where you get a full 360⁰ vista of the Port and surrounding countryside.

Next stop as we travelled now north on the western side of The Eyre Peninsula heading towards Ceduna was at the Lake Hamilton Eating House. Built around 1857, the eating house was used as a stopping place for coaches and travellers on their way to the Far West Coast until the 1880's. In 1972 the eating house was restored to its original condition. Today it's just a rest spot. We then visited Coffin Bay, Elliston and stopped for the night at Walker's Rock, part of the Newland Conservation Park and one of the longest beaches on the West Coast. I got out the twin tub washer and washed while Chris cooked a delicious beef and red wine casserole. Yum!

We were close to the beach and during the night a large thunderstorm presented itself, so from the sound of the crashing waves on the shore and lightning from the storm we had a sound and light show!

Next day travelling further north we visited Talia Caves and Talia Beach.............visited the 'Woolshed', a large cavern carved into the granite cliff by wave action. A walkway and wooden st4eps provided access onto the rocks to view the cave with its honeycombed ceiling, dark crevices and nearby blowhole. A little further on is the 'The Tub', a large crater with a tunnel connection to the sea and a granite base. There was a strong wind blowing and when I leant over to adjust the camera a gust of wind circled under my broad rimmed hat and blew it over into 'The Tub'.............gone, gone, gone forever.............the hat I brought in Longreach last year down in 'The Tub' at Talia Beach. Oh well, I will certainly be on the lookout for another hat, not only to protect me from the hot sun but one that I can throw my fly net over!

Next stop Murphy's Haystack........an outcrop of pink granite boulders. These ancient wind worn granite inselbergs, hugh rock purported to be over 1500million years old, occur in numerous places on the Peninsula. Travelling north, in the surrounding fields, there are numerous rock fences. These fences are made from rock, the process called 'Drystone Walling'.............Drystone walling named as such because the stones were so placed so there wasn't the need for mortar to hold them together.

Travelling further north we ended up at Streaky Bay around lunch time and the pub was very inviting, so we enjoyed a pork roast and vegie lunch, refuelled and fill our tanks with water then travelled a little further onto a camp spot at Haslam. Haslam established in 1883 was once a deep sea port and coastal shipping town but when road transport took over in the 1960's shipping in and out of Haslam ceased. Today the town's jetty is used as a good fishing jetty.