We left Port Lincoln refreshed and ready to drive again after our 6 night stay. We arrived at Waterloo Bay Caravan Park Elliston and were both thrilled to see green grass!!!! I know it seems silly but it is sooo dry in SA that all of the parks are dirt, not even dry grass or gravel, just dirt! Jayne just loves that.....not. The little hoover is getting a hammering!
Waterloo Bay is really beautiful and the township of Elliston, which sits on Waterloo Bay, is tiny, but clean and really well developed and maintained. They have a strong Progress Association and it shows. It has a Hospital. Actually most of the small country towns have their own Hospitals with an ED in SA (NSW Health take note). There is also ONE pub, two cafes, a pharmacy and a wonderful park.
Waterloo Bay has a lot of history and the bay just west of Waterloo Bay was named Anxious Bay by Matthew Flinders because he was quite anxious trying to cross the bar to get into Waterloo Bay, (see gallery). We went site-seeing to Anxious Bay as it was on my list of places to see. Given I can be an anxious sort at times I thought it was fitting that I visited a place with that title. It's stunning and remote and surprisingly quite calming.
Of course Jayne and I walked around the very rugged remote coastline at Waterloo Bay, Point Wellington to be exact, and as always I was taking photos. I wandered along the cliff face while Jayne stayed behind. I reckon I was about 200 metres away from her and I turned around to see what Jayne was up to. In this remote spot she was chatting. I just laughed and said to myself I've got to take a shot of this. No matter where we are, no matter how isolated, remote, Jayne finds someone to chat to. (see photo as proof in gallery)
We had two lovely nights in the Waterloo Bay Caravan Park Elliston and we would recommend it.
We are now in Ceduna, planning the trip across The Nullarbor beginning tomorrow. It is very very dusty here and Jayne wants to get outa here and get on the road to WA. We are going to stop into Bridgestone here in Ceduna tomorrow as we leave to get our tyre pressure checked as most of the AIR gauges in the garages only reach 60kpi where as we need 79kpi in our truck tyres. Not crossing the Nullarbor without the correct tyre pressure!
We figure it will take us 3 days to get across the Nullarbor so we may not be writing into the blog for a few days.
Love to all, take care.
ps. Everything is running well so far. Whimsy is a delight to drive and live in.