Thursday 27 December 2012

Christmas in the bush.

Travelling towards Port Lincoln we passed through Coffin Bay for a quick look; a nice little coastal town with great camp spots in the national park (so we’re told).  It’s a place we’d like to visit again some other day to explore more (like a lot of places we’ve shot through) as we chose to push onto Port Lincoln just 30kms away.
Port Lincoln is on the tip of the Eyre Peninsula, and it’s quite big and has a lot of the main stream shops.  The Lincoln National Park is 20kms further on from the town, so nice and convenient.  With lots of camping spots dotted along its beaches and bays, we ended up finding a great spot at Surfleet Cove in a sheltered bay area.  Setting up the camper, we had a beautiful view to the water.
The view...
While we set up camp the kids were finally able to get the Christmas decorations out and they were happy decorating our dwarf Xmas tree and camper with the few bits of tinsel we had.  We thought it looked pretty good in the end.
Santa's Elves
Home sweet home
We spent a lot of time at ‘our’ beach that we had on our front doorstep and found that the few other campers there must be allergic to the water as we had the beach to ourselves.
'Our' beach
Oh what a feeling... Port Lincoln.
Hours to make, one high tide to destroy.
Being close to town we made a couple of trips back into Port Lincoln.  One was for a civilisation fix of a Maccas breaky, (yum), and we also had lunch at the water front ‘Pier pub’ to escape a stinking hot day (bigger yum).

Port Lincoln - Home of Makybe Diva
We also took a look around the rest of the National Park and found a 4wd track (the Investigator Trail) that gave some nice pin stripes to the side of the Patrol.  We ditched that quick smart as the constant screeching (from the kids also) was a bit ‘nails down a blackboard’. We also ventured up to a beautiful bay called September beach.  Again the other water phobic campers from there allowed us to have the place to ourselves, so we swam in the calm waters (another sheltered bay) and explored around the rocks.  We liked that beach so much that we decided to go back the following day (Xmas day) for a picnic lunch. 
September Beach
Xmas at September
"Ben, I know you're not dead"
So the big day arrived and we were all happy that the big bloke in red had found us the night before.  Geez he and his helper were really quiet putting the kids toys in their Santa sacks (green eco shopping bags!) to not wake them ;-)  Anyway we had a very relaxing Xmas morning with the kids playing with their new toys... no hustle and bustle of rushing around.  
Prezzie time
For the car trip
Shark tooth necklace
Exchanging the loot
After our visit back to September beach in the afternoon, we returned to camp to cook up our Xmas pork belly in the Weber... Dee-lish-us. God bless Webers!
Xmas dinner, bush style... with crackers.
We ended up camping at Lincoln NP for 5 nights (God bless solar power), and when it was time to move on, it was another sad moment.  Sad to leave such a beautiful spot, and sad that our time travelling is drawing to an end.

BUT... before reaching home, we decided that the Clare Valley must be a good place to visit this time of year.

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