Coffins Bay to Cummins is actually a 40 min drive according to Google maps but we actually spent 2 1/2 hours getting out of the park (leaving camp at 1045) and then another 4 hours to check out some local spots on the way to Cummins (arriving around 5:30pm).
Our packing up was quick (as usual) giving us time to help out others with more to do.
We had 3 packs of fresh fish in our fridge extra to take home and will eat that later and remember this trip fondly as we do so
The tide was further out on the way back, giving more space for driving, and after a week of warm weather the sand was softer.
This caused Bob, at the front, to get stuck in a particularly soft bit at one point, but this was relatively quickly resolved with maxtraks and some good driving.
Much better situation than for the young couple with two tyres rolled off of the rims plus a broken jack handle who were waiting for a retrieval vehicle to come out from Coffins at the cost of $500!
We stopped to pump up tyres and have lunch at the excellent cafe in Coffins- next to the Liberty service station and IGA. Try their falafel wrap. Yum. Trev wandered across to the hall to see if Barbie might still be there on library duty, but we had arrived too late. He did pick up a free mystery valentines book gift (a blind date with a book) wrapped in brown paper. He took the chocolate heart stuck on the front. I got the rest. One of Barbie’s many bright ideas to promote reading and use of the library.
We said goodbye to our fellow travellers, who were heading for Cowell for their overnight stop. They were going via Cummins too due to a big fire on the outskirts of Port Lincoln which needed to be avoided.
We dawdled around Coffin Bay and then had a cuppa looking out over Kellidie Bay.
We could see the people out tasting oysters on the Oyster HQ tour they were sitting wearing waders with feet in the water as we drove past.
We tootled around on the backroads to the Kellidie Peninsula and took the rough track to the end there, where we could look across the water to the township of Coffin Bay and Rabbit Island.
Then we tracked across to Mount Dutton Bay where the old cafe in the Woolshed is. It was closed. (only open Fri, Sat and Sun). Then a bit further around to Farm Beach (past the old tractor graveyard) where we pulled off of the firm boat ramp to allow access for another vehicle and came close to needing our own retrieval.
We travelled across to Cummins via the old Nyroca Scout Camp and the back roads. We received the usual warm family welcome from Vinnie and Barbie, with a lovely meal, and a pleasant walk around the local area (their nightly walk) thrown in. We even stopped to use the exercise equipment on the school oval and caught up with Haley, who was locking up the local basketball stadium.
Trev and Vinnie shared a spa in the back yard
while Barbie and Erica had a good natter inside and were treated to a live performance of a few of Nat‘s songs (written by her as well as performed by her to the accompaniment of her guitar).
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