2012, October 26/27 - Coffin Bay to Port Lincoln Nat Park

Trip Meter Reading Start – 11160

Interim Trip Meter Reading - 11276

We're a social lot us Bakers - We had so much fun at the
Lincoln National Park with the Stedman Family.
Dad and me with Blair, Sharee, Sophia, Phoebe & John.

Trip Meter Reading Finish –  11334 (116 kms)

Filled up Coffin Bay
ULP @ $1.59 / litre; 52.2  litres; $83.00

Accommodation
Port Lincoln National Park – $7 per adult and $2 per child per night.
Lincoln National Park is located 13km south west of Port Lincoln. Access is via Proper Bay Road.  We stayed at Surfleet Cove which has 19 sites and1 of the 13 camping areas available.  Lovely big sites to choose from; the top ones have ocean views where as the lower level (where we set up) were close to the beach.

Comments – Luke

Friday - Today we drove to Almonta beach and had a walk found a shell in the rocks.  After that we drove to Port Lincon and got two new back tyres for the caravan.  We also went into the information centre and got my favourite cowrie called the sieve cowrie.  After that we stayed at a bay in a national park.  We went down on the bay and met some kids and stacked some rocks and knocked them down with some other rocks.

Saturday – Today we explored Port Lincoln national park and walked a couple of beaches looking for whells.  We saw heaps of emus and lots of lizards.  After that we went back to camp and played cards in Blear’s caravan which are the people we met yesterday.  We played sitting ducks where you have to shoot everybodys ducks and the last person to have there ducks wins.

OMG Emus are everywhere Dad

Comments – Mum and Dad

Friday – After a great night’s sleep, we said goodbye to our neighbour Jennie (who’s daughter Nicole died 2 weeks before her 18^th).  I gave her my Big Banana beer cooler with my name on it as a reminder that her daughter would always be with her.  She was very appreciative and humble.  We wished her luck on her travels to her daughter’s in Brisbane; travelling and caring for a husband with Parkinson’s and dementia would not be easy (she was an inspiration to me!).....Hooked up we drove out to Point Avoid in the Coffin Bay National Park and walked along the beach which was so gorgeous landscape and water wise before heading into the national park at Port Lincoln.

Point Avoid - Coffin Bay National Park

Saturday – Enjoyed exploring parts of the park including September Beach; Memory Cove and Stamford Hill.  The  park offered white sandy beaches and an extensive network of walking trails that pass through native scrub including a short but steep walk to Stamford Hill where there were spectacular 360 degree views of the coastline and surrounds. Luke and I trekked from Stamford Hill back to camp which took about 2 hours around the beach and rocks.  It was a long but beautiful walk.  I was bloody shafted when I got back...nothing that a couple of drinks in Rick’s bus couldn’t fix.

Beautiful beaches at Port Lincoln NP

 

A wine well earned after a long walk in Rick's converted bus....Cheers big ears!