Cowell to The Pool 10/2/23

It was good to have a shower in the morning. We were on the road by just after 8 but the others were heading for the roadhouse for breakfast.

We drove on to Arno Bay where we enjoyed another jetty walk and were again impressed by a foreshore with a huge shelter shed, great playground and park facilities.

Then it was on to a mangrove walk on the outskirts of town. We enjoyed watching all the little crabs scuttling for cover and disappearing into their holes.

Unfortunately the mangrove walk took longer than anticipated as we had to retrace our steps due to a closed section. The water was lovely and clear and moving very fast.

We got stuck behind slow traffic and were pushing against a head wind and were the last to arrive in Port Lincoln but the first to leave after a very quick shop.

We had some more slow driving to get to Coffin Bay stuck behind slow drivers but still had time to add some fuel before the others arrived. After a lunch stop we headed out to the park

15km into the park we stopped to let down our tyres and the fun driving began. Soft sand alternating with corrugations and rough rock surfaces with lots of large holes and sharp protrusions. Tricky driving. The sides of the road are quite lush after a good rainfall through the year.

It was 50 km in to our campsite and took almost 2 hours of hard driving. The tide was the highest seen here and we were lucky to make it along the beach section.

We managed to get in a bit of fishing after setting up camp, but with the high tide we couldn’t walk around to the usual spot. We did catch a few of legal size but not enough for a meal before calling it a day and heading back to camp to dine on Bev’s delicious zucchini slice with salad and fruit cake.

An excellent start to the fishing and camping.