We are embracing retirement, and making the most of it.

We knew we were never going to sit still for long, so whilst we are happy and healthy we will be out and about seeing the world………… full time.

We are out of the fast lane and taking the slow road ahead

Saturday, 12 March 2022

On our way to the Yorke

Our aim this week was to reach the Yorke Peninsula - Moonta, and hopefully spend some time on the Boot sightseeing, fishing, crabbing and squidding. The weather has been so windy, averaging about 35km with gusts over 40km. The days have been sunny, but cool.



Smoky Bay oysters near Haslam are the best.... we bought them shucked, but only $10 for 13 if you shuck them yourself. For.Derek I did them Kilpatrick, and I had them with Brie, and Natural.  Two dozen went down well


We by-passed the crowds on Perlubie Beach, but bumped into friends we met in WA (that’s their van in the foreground) who had just spent 3 weeks here fishing, high tide had just caught many out during the night and were still bogged...the seaweed is a good indication of the tide mark


This is why you don’t stand on cliff edges...Venus Bay. Nothing holding this edge up




We took the Birdseye Highway across the Eyre Peninsula through lovely green grazing country side

Par Avion... what a mail box!


Beautiful huge tree just popped out of nowhere


Locke, it’s great to take a walk around the small country towns, they all have something unique to offer


Overnight at Cleve Weir free camp, the wheel house was open


The Aussie Book Exchange, a godsend to Nomads


Whyalla was the greenest I have ever seen it, it is normally grey salt bush and red dirt. Mt Laura Whyalla in the distance


Finally got to see my old house ...... it had been hidden behind a huge fence on my previous visits, sadly it wasn’t very tidy and now it’s all concrete, but still I have some great memories 


The new Whyalla circular jetty was finally completed, but only the crazy braved the winds






We have to do the washing sometime, so visited windy Port Germain, and soon got the washing dry whilst we had lunch, can’t beat the view.  Too windy to hang it under our awning, so tied it to the brick wall...


and a walk along the 1 mile jetty, that’s how far the tide goes out. We walked straight into the wind. 




We wondered what this was about we have never come across this before.... it use to stand off shore in the middle of Spencer Gulf, and was used to indicate to ships how high the tide was




Moonta is the top end and start of 11 nights on the Yorke Peninsula

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