Saturday, November 08, 2025

Day 7 - Point Labbat to Talia

 Some highs and some lows - that's what travel is all about.

We had a beautiful slow morning by the water of Baird Bay, enjoying the sun through the windows, the peace and the knowledge we were on our own time.

After early elevenses, we headed off. I need to remember that the Ford has a big turning circle - where Neill did a neat u-turn, I needed to do an (also neat) three point turn!

Up the road a bit, we stopped for the Murphy's Haystacks. Really just big rocks sticking out of the ground, do they actually look like old fashioned hay stacks?!?!

Down the road a bit further to Venus Bay, and what a delightful little town this was! Pretty, well serviced, catered well for caravans, and it had plenty of my favourite birds - pelicans! Both the statue kind (meet Pauly the Pelican) and the real kind, who allowed me to get really quite close!


We bought some local fish for our lunch (this town boasts a curved jetty, to which were moored a couple of fishing trawlers) and enjoyed it and the birds.

On the road again for another 10km (we only did about 80km all up today!), until we turned off for the Talia Caves, especially the Woolshed Cave. Unfortunately, the road in was 5km of corrugations which was not much fun. We got to the end, where we were also going to camp, but it was windy and uninspiring. We walked down the many stairs to the caves, and were slightly taken aback that they were not signed, there was no path to them (you had to rock hop) - it was all a bit weird. But, it was a cave - and a large one at that!
After deciding the cave campground was too uninspiring, we ventured back up the corrugated road for a few kilometres to this spot Neill found where we could bush camp. It was a bit out of the wind, very quiet and actually, pretty good! With the vans well positioned to protect us from the worst of the wind, we enjoyed afternoon tea in the sun before Neill and I collected some firewood (if not for tonight, then in the optimistic hope of a wind-less night soon so we coul dhave a fire). Pre dinner drinks outside, and even dinner, the latter of which was a bit optimistic as it really started to cool down as the sun set.


posted by Tracey @ 8:58 pm

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