10/5/20

Clydesdale Statue at Maitland

Jetty at Moonta Bay

Port Broughton

  

This morning was beautiful.  The sun was shining and the wind, well what wind!!!!  We got up and started packing up. It was great as we didn't have to race to be out by 10 and we knew we didn't have far to go today so we took our time.  Pa rinsed the car off and reorganised it and while he was doing this I cooked us scrambled eggs.  (I know it doesn't sound too exciting a breakfast for most people but for us with our new diet it was a treat, no bacon mind you)  We finished our packing up, picked up a bit more fishing tackle, fuelled up at $1.51 and had a look at the local market.  It was mostly craft work but I got a few good ideas from it.  We then headed out of Maitland thinking we were so glad we had stayed there.  It is a lovely little town with friendly people.  Our first stop was Moonta on the west coast.  It is a great town, quite big, with lots of lovely old buildings and homes and lots of shops.  The only bad thing about the town was its streets.  They were like a patchwork quilt and so overdue for repair. Port Hughes, just on the coast out from Moonta was a lovely town with lots of new homes, a nice long jetty and a good little caravan park but in bad weather would be very exposed to the elements.  Moonta Bay had a great jetty with a good little caravan park but it was a bit tight.  Next town was Walleroo which is not worth the drive, very dirty and just badly looked after.  North Beach was just out on the coast from Walleroo and it was just all new homes on a marina but obviously there was a water problem as none of the homes had any grass, everything was just dirt.  Even the caravan park sites were all dirt or on bitumen.  We actually got to drive the cruiser and the big girl on the beach here.  We got to the end of a street and had no place else to go so we could see it was nice and firm so away we went.  We had to stop for me to take photos of course.  How good was this.  We are only hoping some of the beaches we have been hearing about in WA are as firm as this and we can camp on some of them.   We had a look at the ferry that goes from Walleroo to the Eyre Peninsula but it was really expensive to use it.  We stocked up the wine cabinet before we left Walleroo because it has been a dry argument for a while so at least the town had something going for it.  We drove on to Port Broughton and booked in at the caravan park.  It is costing us $30 a night and if we stay for 7 nights we only pay for 6.  We have only booked till Sunday night so we will see how we go after that.  We have a good site right beside the beach so we set up camp, had a very late lunch and went for a walk along the beach.  We think if the weather is kind to us tomorrow we may be able to launch the kayaks and go for a little fish.  There is also a good long jetty here.