2012, 24 October - Laura Bay to Streaky Bay

Trip Meter Reading Start –  10688

Replica of the Great White caught off Streaky Bay...sheesh

Trip Meter Reading Finish –  10787 (99 kms)

Filled up Streaky Bay
ULP @ $1.629 / litre;  60.75 litres; $99.01

Accommodation
Streaky Bay Foreshore Tourist Park, 82 Wells Street, Streaky Bay
Friendly staff; lovely sites and clean facilities.  Located right on Doctors Beach
Powered site was $35 per night for 2 people

Comments – Luke

Today we set up camp at a caravan park at Streaky Bay.  After that we had a look around town and went to a cemetery to find some Baker’s and only found one.  We then went to the memorial and found three Baker’s.  We also went to a petrol station  and had a look of a replica of a great white shark caught on 50 pound line the shark was five metres.  After that dad and I went fishing for squid for our first time and I caught one and had it for dinner.  It was yum.

Luke catches his first squid off the jetty

Comments – Mum and Dad

Local Cemetery and Anzac Memorial – as strange as it may seem we went to the cemetery to see if we could find any long lost relatives that may have been buried there.  We found two ‘Baker’ plaques at the cemetery and three ‘Bakers’ named at the memorial; one being P Baker which could be Mark’s great grandfather Percy that fought and was killed in France in World War 1.
Great White Shark Replica – no charge - located in the service station (see Lukes comments above)

Streaky Bay is a pretty village situated on the Western Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.  A local company in Baird Bay offers swimming with the seals, but for us it was a little expensive ($200-300 for a family of four) and something we would have to save for another time around.


Downtown Streaky Bay looking toward Doctors Beach and Jetty Foreshore area