Coffin Bay - Part 1

Just around the peninsula from Port Lincoln is Coffin Bay. It was perhaps my favourite spot on the trip to date. The highlight for me was the oyster farm tour I did with Zoe. We got to put on waders, wade out into the bay to a picnic table set up in the water, sit in the water listening to how oysters are farmed and then shuck and eat our own oysters at the table.  Sadly, as Zoe didn’t like the taste, I had to eat hers too... She is now a master oyster shucker now though!

The other highlights for all of us were the emus and kangaroos in our campground. In fact, in the night I got up to go to the bathroom and when I opened the caravan door I literally almost stepped onto a kangaroo. It was magical seeing at least ten kangaroos silently grazing around our van in the moonlight. We’ve had quite a few campsites with lots of kangaroos since then but this was the first, and therefore the most exciting. I thought they would be spooked as soon as they saw me, but in fact they just stared at me calmly. The next morning we also had an emu calmly stroll past the camper van  as we were eating breakfast – we all loved that.

Zoe's waders were a little large

I look ready for the part

It was high tide and the water ALMOST came over our waders. Lil' Zoe had to be carried.

Listening to the farmer talk about growing oysters

Learning the right way to shuck an oyster

Enjoying the oysters

Shucking knife and oyster

The aptly named 'Long Beach' in Coffin Bay

You can see why it's called Long Beach

Indie doing some dune training

The view from the top

Emu in the campground