Day 12 - Coffin Bay and Port Lincoln
The day dawned wet. Not cold, and not windy for once, just wet. So we had a slow morning, breakfast in bed, some life admin and then elevenses under the awning watching the rain.
Also starting at about this time was what became a day long dilemma. As excited as I am to have a washing machine in this van, it is small. Great for small loads of tshirts and underwear, but not for towels and sheets. Knowing today was going to be wet, I thought I'd wash the sheets and dry them in the tumble dryer, all at the caravan park laundry. The washing part was easy. There's 8 machines, $4 a load, and two of the machines have swipe and pay. Super easy. The drying became the problem. There are only two dryers (to be fair, Coffin Bay has an average rainfall of a bout 390mm per annum so most drying would be done on the lines) and there is a whole etiquette about queuing and using washers/dryers. One machine had a load in it but had been finished for what seemed like a time. The user's wash basket was on top, so etiquette says you should wait about 15 minutes after it's stop, and if they haven't come back, you can empty their dryer and put your load in. The other machine had 26 minutes left. I thought I'd better wait 15 minutes so set a timer and went back to the van. By the time I came back, that machine was in use again (same load - obviously not dry). So set the timer for another 9 minutes and come back. By the time I came back, someone had queue jumped! I didn't have time to wait again as we were heading out. So I bundled up my wet sheets and decided to wait until we got back.
In the meantime, we headed into Port Lincoln for lunch and to do some grocery shopping. Although we are heading to Port Lincoln tomorrow, we wanted to get the shopping out of the way so we have time to sightsee tomorrow. I searched TripAdvisor for a good cafe for lunch and headed up at a French croissanterie! It was so good! Tastefully decorated, great service and the menu had an interesting collection of sweet and savoury goodies - not all involving croissants! We all enjoyed our lunch.
Then we hit the supermarkets and returned to Coffin Bay, as we had found a very exclusive sourdough baker who made fresh bread on Thursdays and Saturdays, and you could buy at 4pm on a Thursday. Stopping at the caravan park to unpack groceries, I tried the dryer again. No go! So I hung them on the clothes line even though there was still a bit of rain - thuoght the air was better than wet sheets bunched in the basket.
Off to Jarrah's Sourdough. An enterprising young man named James who got into surdough making during COVID, built his own oven, and now makes about 100 loaves a week during the off season and 300 loaves a week during the peak season! We each bought a loaf!
posted by Tracey @ 9:46 pm
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