General pictures of the Oyster Trail walk in Coffin Bay.
Cemetery in Coffin Bay. It was 42C that day, I could feel myself getting sunburned as soon as I stepped out of the car, despite having lathered myself several times in sunscreen.
On an interesting note, there were full bottles of beer left on some graves. The graves were all relatively recent.
On the last part of the Oyster Trail my partner and I chose to do, it went along the road back to the Caravan park which was pretty boring so we went off the trail and through some trees onto the beach. We walked along it and eventually it was just rocks and swarms of bees and inch ants, so we decided to find the trail again… only we couldn’t. We pushed our way through trees and bushes and when we finally found the road again I had a bright red, slightly raised rash up both my arms. Note to self: you’re allergic to nature and the sun and don’t wear singlets on nature walks. Also, make your partner walk first through a bunch of trees so he pulls down spiderwebs, rather than you.
I will get a better picture later when I charge my camera batteries, but I freaking love this necklace. I was lucky enough to be in Coffin Bay long enough to catch the sunday market which comes every few weeks. I bought a few little pretty buttons and pendants, spices, and two beautiful necklaces from the most enthusiastic old guy ever. It’s a type of stone called “Rainbow Opal Matrix” which is mined in Andamooka, and it’s absolutely beautiful. I was shuffling through the pendants the guy was selling and the shape of this one really stood out to me, I love it. :3 I got to pick a chain for it too - I’m starting to buy more and more gold and brass tone jewelry - I never thought I would!
Getting mobbed by kangaroos. I am relatively scared of kangaroos - at least now just the big ones who will mess you up if you come near their babies, but these kangas were so beautiful! Two had joeys that popped their heads out of their pouches every so often - one had all it’s fur but the other was still a whitish colour, so precious.
If you’re ever near Port Lincoln in South Australia, go to Glen Forest animal park. It’s the best place ever - they have heaps of animals including donkeys, goats, alpacas, peacocks, and even an ostrich that are all friendly (the ostrich has an attitude though - I liked him) and you can feed them for $2 a bag. Plus entry is only $12 per adult, and less for kidlings. Way better than a zoo. It’s someone’s personal property and their farm and you can tell the animals are all well loved and treated well.
Summary of Coffin Bay holiday so far:
- Roo poo
- Sun burn
- Hot tents
- Walking to the toilet block at 5am because my bladder is fucking hilarious
- Somehow running out of the masses of sunscreen, buying $18 bottle at general store. Only charged $8 because they love us fuck yeah.
- Glen Forest animal park are going to have to adopt me because that place is fucking awesome and I know the animals only loved me because they know people have food but I’ll accept that <3
- Fed an ostrich, then it bit my finger and took the food bag
- Ostriches are douchebags but pretty cool because they have attitude
- Fresh roo poo around the tent in the mornings
- Roo poo god damn /everywhere/.
OH and we went to an antique store yesterday, it was in the middle of nowhere outside of Coffin bay, it’s a super long dirt road to get there. They have a pig farm and it reaks but they were cute anyway, and the shop oh sweet Lucifer the shop. The guy has half his old record collection in there, and apparently he still has mint Beatles records that he still has to price sitting in his house. The guy put an Alice Cooper record on for us, and holy shit if you have never heard a record player put it on your to do list, it’s genuinely amazing. There’s so many depths to the music on the players and it just has this sound that’s incredible. There was a Bob Marley & The Wailers record that I might get him to play next time we go up there for pancakes… I want it but I don’t have a working record player and apparently the needles cost $50 each now. Butts. I bought some pretty costume jewelry and Cameron bought a Journey record and a Coca Cola mirror. It’s hilarious, I will have to get a picture of it.
EDIT: Oh, and while we were at long beach wading through the water, we saw a jellyfish. Then we legged it, as you do. and on another day we were doing part of the Oyster Trail hike, and we got down to the beach section, and we saw a stingray swimming along in like ankle deep water. We watched it for a minute, and then it nuzzled into a patch of seaweed, and we couldn’t see it anymore, how scary is that. o.O
Travel plans
It’s decided that Cameron and I are going to Coffin Bay. It’s on the coast and they have heaps of activities and rentals and whatnot. We want to go kayaking, but the problem is Cameron’s car has roofracks, but isn’t reliable for that distance. We could take my mum’s car with a trailer because it’s 6cyl, I guess. I don’t know how much trailer hire is. We looked into hiring a 4wd with roofracks and it’s $77 or $88 a freaking day. So ~$1100 for the duration of time we need it. No thanks. The cheapest holiday house there isn’t available, the next cheapest would cost us $1500 for 12 nights. I don’t feel it’s worth it. An ensuite cabin at the caravan park I think was also $125 a night which is the freaking same. What even?
But a powered site with communal toilets is only $30, so $360 and I could buy a super badass tent with the money leftover too. I was going to buy online as I found some cheap but the postage time worries me. We plan to go away on the 14th of 15th of Jan but postage times always take longer this time of year.
Everything is butts. Did you know Aldinga which is a shitload closer doesn’t have a caravan park with suitable tent areas? The fuck?
