Day 5 - Streaky Bay
Weather - it can have such an impact on what you do and how you do it. There was no sitting outside the caravan on the beach today (although it was hot eneough for it), no swims or walks, although at least my washing dried quickly. Yes, it was super windy - gusts up to 70km/hr! Thankfully we hadn't put our awning out, and although I had optimistically left our chairs out last night, rain drops at 2am forced me outside to fold them and tuck them away. So the weather completely dicated what we did today.
We enjoyed our sleep in, and slow morning. Did a few domestic jobs before heading into town with Neill and Jude for elevenses at the bakery. Then we thought we'd do some of the scneic drives as we could avoid the wind inside the car.
First up, we did the Cape Bauer Loop Drive. Plenty to stop and see, although the whistling rocks were a highlight.
The cliffs were also quite stunning, we all remarked that you can tell we are reasonably close to the Bunda Cliffs along the Great Australian Bight.
We completed this loop drive by 1pm so headed back to the caravan park for lunch at the in-house Oyster Barn. Great fish and chips, the squid is caught at the end of the jetty near our caravan park (and probably deeper out to sea too!) and there are plenty of local oyster farms! Delicious! After lunch, we decided to do the Westall Loop Drive as the wind by now was up to the 70 km/hr gusts and it was difficult to even open the caravan door! The tractor beach we remembered from our last visit here was on this loop but there are no tractors on the beach anymore! A great campground instead but that's not how we remember it! Some more great cliffs, rocky tracks, lots of wind but the sun was out by now and it was 28C!
Back to the park for a few more jobs, including a load of washing. The novelty of a washing machine in the van is still exciting - I think this was only the third time I have used it! Then we headed into the Streaky Bay Hotel for dinner, as we clearly weren't going to be sitting outside. A delicious meal was had before we headed back to the vans where the wind is slowly easing a bit but it is still quite warm. Ah yes, the weather.....
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