We are excited that the first video is ready to view on YouTube – the fishing day at Farm Beach. Thanks so much Jake Cunningham for your help with the editing!! We are obviously novices at the video stuff, but having lots of fun doing it and learning as we go. Hopefully they will get better and better as the trip goes on.
We headed into the town today to check it out and did a bit of a shop for supplies. It is a really friendly and beautiful spot.
We went down first to check out the boat ramps to see where we would launch the boat from tomorrow, as there are two options. One is close to us, just a few kilometers from the Streaky Bay Islands Caravan Park, but is a shallow and rocky launch spot. The other is on the far side of town and you have to pay at the Tourist Centre to use it. I believe it is $5 a launch, or you can get weekly/monthly permits as well if you are going to be staying a while. There isn’t anywhere at either boat ramp to wash the boat down, but we found you can do this at the dump point back in the town.
We decided we would launch from the ramp nearest to us.
We visited a place called Back Beach, not far from Streaky Bay and it was also very beautiful. A good Surf and fishing beach, but one to be a little wary of – some big swells and rips.
We spotted a beautiful bike track along the foreshore, so might get the bikes down off the car and take them for their first voyage while we are here.
We have decided to stay on here a few extra days, as there is still a few things that we want to do.
So great to have the time to make those choices! So happy for you – beautiful beaches!
Luv Mum x
Thanks Mum, it is good not to be on a schedule and to be able choose to stay a bit longer and do the things that interest you.
I think that beautiful beaches might be a bit of a theme of this trip! Amazing that no matter how many you see, it still takes your breath away. xx
Kris, knowing Col’s history and especially in those waters – I am charging you with the responsibility to make sure that there is fuel ? in the boat’s tanks, ask Col about Southend! ??
Great work on the video – are we going to get a bloopers version one day?????? it would go viral.
Thanks for the heads up Nige!! I will keep a close eye on it. He did tell me the story, lucky you guys ran out of petrol in the river rather than the open ocean where you were. Could have been a very different story.
And yes I thought the same thing – we will definitely make a bloopers video and collect them over the trip. Very funny
Maybe Jake can put the theme from Gilligans Island to the video for the bloopers. Great editing from Jake – really look forward to the bloopers reel Jake puts together on your return over a couple of bottles of red . Impressed by Cols filletting skills though. I’ve not seen him in action before. Looking forward to your next post and wishing we were camping with you travel safe. Keep cool in the heat x