Molins Down Under: Port Lincoln

Basically, as we were planning our journey westward we had to be a little more strategic about how many places we could actually visit – of the three ‘peninsulas’ around Adelaide in South Australia (Fleurie, Yorke and the Eyre peninsulas) we chose just to come down the last. I don’t want to know what amazing things we missed with that decision, but we are rapidly coming to realize that, try as we might, we just can’t see it all. I think we did choose the most rugged and remote peninsula to visit and after Whyalla we drove down to Port Lincoln on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula.

It’s a great spot. Known for its huge seafood industry (specifically tuna and prawns amongst others) it’s got a lot on offer. Not least of which is cage diving with Great White sharks. Toby and Indie were the chosen ones… I think Toby’s video says it best about that experience! Indie and Toby cage dive with the Great Whites.

Anna, Zoe and I were supposed to do a boat tour of the tuna farms and say hi to the sea lions in the bay while Toby and Indie were away but sadly the booking wasn’t communicated properly and so we missed out. Never mind – we enjoyed the dolphins swimming past our campsite, the pelicans on the shore and the 10-week-old puppy in the campsite next to us! There was also a really nice walk along the foreshore 3km in either direction from the campsite, and Zoe and I enjoyed a visit to Shelley Beach. (There are a lot of Shelley beaches in Oz, it seems, following along the theme of ‘Australians say it like it is’. These beaches have sand made of – surprise! – crushed shells. Hence, Shelley beach. And sadly, not some fixation with the Romantic poets, as I first hoped…)