A beautiful day today and only 145km along the Flinders Highway from Streaky Bay to Elliston. Elliston is a small town on Waterloo Bay, quiet and unassuming, so far anyway.
Today we drove south past Eyre's Waterhole, where Eyre and his party camped during Eyre's exploration of the area back in 1840, and Murphy's Haystacks, refer last blog. The latter we saw from a distance this time. No wonder the Irishman took them for haystacks.
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| 08114 Where Eyre camped near Streaky Bay |
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| 081014 Eyre Waterhole still produces water |
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| 081014 Murphy's Haystacks from a distance |
We passed through Port Kenny which has a grain storage facility but its port does not seem to be active. In fact the town had a lot of closed buildings and it looked poorly.
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| 071014 Grain Storage at Port Kenny |
Perhaps it is because another town called Venus Bay has been constructed on the other side of the actual Venus Bay. Venus Bay is a delightful bay to the south of Point Lebatt (refer last blog). It has a reasonably small opening to the sea. On the southern headland there are some limestone cliffs which are quite spectacular. Some pretty sizeable waves were crashing on the rocks below the cliffs.
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| 081014 The Jetty at Venus Bay - used by commercial fisherman |
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| 081014 Venus Bay, one of the heads |
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| 081014 The entrance to Venus Bay |
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| 081014 Cliff Tops at Venus Bay looking north to Point Labatt |
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| 081014 Looking south from the cliffs at Venus Bay |
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| 081014 Looking further south from Venus Bay cliffs |
We shucked fresh oysters for lunch and sat overlooking Venus Bay as we ate them - with yummy fresh bread.
From Venus Bay we travelled through mile after mile of fields of gold. Most of the time we could see Lake Newlands, a very large salt lake about 25km long.
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081014 Lake Newland - a salt lake and closed from the sea.
Frontal dunes are behind the lake with the ocean further back |
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| 081014 More of Lake Newland |
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| 081014 Harvesting has commenced near Elliston |
Elliston has some sights to see we are told, so we have decided to spend a couple of nights here. Some doves presented themselves late in the day.
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| 081014 Doves at the Caravan Park |
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