10 Exploring Port Lincoln; well the population is 13,600 so it is not a big place and it only takes a short bit of time to see the foreshore or down town area. We have our lunch of lovely fresh oysters and head off to the Lincoln Park Nature Reserve; but something is not sitting well with Glen and we head back to the camp ground while he is still feeling well enough to driving. We'd both be dead if I suddenly had to drive this big bus on the wrong side of the road. No it wasn't the oysters, as he says he was feeling a bit off prior to lunch. Happily though an afternoon of sleeping and resting was all he needed to be feeling better. I had even dug out our travel insurance, just in case.
11 It is January 26 and more significantly - Australia Day! Our brief poll of Australians didn't really answer our question as to what they were celebrating, eg. Confederation, first settlement or what? Just a celebration of being Australia, I guess. Again, we are covering a lot of ground, but take time out to drive through the Coffin Bay Nature Reserve and are rewarded with some stunning beaches, crashing ocean surf, enormous sand dunes (basically the whole coast!) and rugged cliffs. We spotted and photographed an emu in the wild. They are funny creatures. The terrain they live in is scrubby brush about 5 feet tall and their heads are just tall enough to see over the tops, so we played a game of hide an seek to get our pics. Back on the main road, about mid day, we pull off to look at Murray's Hay Stacks. Big freaking granite pillars and knobs, not rocks, because they attached to the huge rock plate below them. The rock is dated at 1500 million years old and the formations as they stand today are about 100,000 years old. A whole village of them clustered on a farmer's sheep field. Weird things are on this earth. Our final destination today is Ceduna, the gateway to the west. A quick drive around this town and we have seen it all. No worries (Aussie lingo) we're here to rest for tomorrow's marathon drive.
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