Winter Journey

Tumby Bay

Port Lincoln

Coffin Bay

The last 3 days in this area have been relaxing and interesting. We did go to Port Lincoln briefly on Saturday only to find the caravan repair and spare parts place was closed.

We spent the rest of the day in and around Tumby Bay.

Tumby Bay

We discovered more Silo art just off the highway. This time depicting life in Tumby Bay showing 2 boys jumping from the jetty. There are also other wall art pieces around the town.

Silo Art Tumby Bay

Wall of Yacht Club

More murals around the town

It's a great walk from the caravan park along the waterfront to the jetty, we watched the pelicans lining up and squabbling, waiting for treats from the fishermen.

We found the National Trust Museum in a side street of Tumby Bay, it's only open for a couple of hours on some days so we timed it perfectly. What a treasure trove of wonderful memorabilia collected around the local area. No aspect of the community has been forgotten, the history for just about everything Tumby and surrounds is recorded there. It turns out that Trev may even have had a distant relative who was well known in the town. The man there showed us a photo and a newspaper article about Ern Nitschke.

Port Lincoln is a large regional city, with large shopping centres. The road trains full of grain deliver to the wharf just on the edge of town. It was freezing cold there today so we didn't wander much. We did get a new handle for our van though and had lunch in the car with a great view over Lincoln Inlet and the National Park.

The wharf at Port Lincoln

Port Lincoln foreshore

Can you see the Lindt Bunny...

or is it just me?

It took us about ½ an hour to drive down to Coffin Bay which is on the western side of the peninsula opposite Port Lincoln. It is home to oyster farms, fishing, with lots of beach lovers holiday homes. We drove around the point into the National Park before gong to the lookout and then returning to Tumby Bay through Cummins.

Coffin Bay oyster beds