Streaky Bay, South Australia.

On our way to Streaky Bay we decided to take a detour to Pt Labbatt to see the Sealion colony, which was about a 41 kilometre diversion off the A1.  Once the sealed road ended we travelled along unsealed road however, as we drove further along the road just got rockier and the corrugation on the car, van and my boobs was dreadful!  In the end I'd had enough and was stressing about the van and 11 kilometres from our destination I told Daniel to forget the Seal colony, after all I'd just seen two at the Adelaide zoo! 

Any way U-turn around and back the same way all that jig jig really got to me.  I don't think I could face another 4 wheel drive soon.  By the time we arrived at Streaky Bay we both were worn out.  We should have got to Streaky Bay first and then taken the trip to Pt Labbatt. Remember this for the future if you travel. Reach your destination first and then sight see. 

After some refreshment, a West End each, we gathered ourselves together and headed out to the jetty where we dropped the jig to catch squid, the fishing rod to catch fish and the crab pot to catch Blue Swimmers.  After the sun sank behind us, the water being so clear and calm that allowed the fish to see us fishing for them it was time to call it a night.  With three fish that Daniel caught, as the Blue Swimmer Crab that I caught got away dinner was going to be a salad and a tin of tuna! 

We woke on Sunday and it was still overcast and raining.  My laundry was on the line and didn't look like it was going to dry before we headed off tomorrow.  We threw it all into the dryer and 45 minutes later all done and ready to take off into town for shopping and to wash the car after yesterday's mistaken adventure. 

We also consulted our original map of Australia and even though we'd gone clockwise instead of anticlockwise as first intended we realised that we had taken too much time in South Australia and we weren't close enough to Western Australia yet if we had to be in Darwin by June.  Our plan was that we wanted to be in Monkey Mia at some stage and the realization hit us that we had to reach that destination within the next 5 weeks before reaching Broome 5 weeks later! 

We sat down and made accommodation inquiries for Monkey Mia with the response coming back that they weren't able to offer the dates wanted as they were booked out.  Word of advice is if you are looking at travelling through WA you need to book in advance. 

I caught Daniel down at the jetty that afternoon and to my delight he caught two flathead, which meant that we would eat dinner tonight with his catch from last night.  I was on the bike so I rode around before returning to do the things I needed to do which was call Szymon, Mum and Monika.  In addition to that, I sat down and wrote a number of postcards to friends, read more of "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and jumped on the net to look at booking places further north of Monkey Mia, Ningaloo Reef, Eighty Mile Beach, Broome and so on. 

Daniel returned with his flathead and another squid which he cleaned while he fed the Pelicans that came in search of his scraps.  Barbecued fish for dinner and off to listen to some Country and Western music in the campground.  What a couple of days here...the lesson is twelve months is really not long enough!!