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| Visited this awesome cave just out from Venus Bay, the sea was flat calm, would be horrendous when the sea was rough. The surounding rocks were very interesting and a soft shade of pink which doesn't really show up in the photos. |
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| Bryon walked part of the way in to the cave but I was a chicken and stayed outside, he even said it was a bit nerve racking so he didnt go all the way in. |
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| The jetty at Venus Bay, South Australia taken at low tide, fishing is the main pass time here with a fleet of large ships operating from here catching pilchards & prawns. The pilchards are all destined for the tuna farms off the coast from Adelaide and if you are around when the boat is unloading you can pick up fresh pilchards for bait from the overflows onto the jetty. |
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| This is the ocean side of Venus Bay, looks very desolate with all the cliffs from this side but looks are deceiving. We did the walk around the point this morning, a nice 45 minute stroll with awesome views. If you haven't already discovered it, you can click on any photo to see it enlarged. |
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| nearly got it! |
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| 5 herring & 2 skippy! not huge fish but I am still pretty happy about catching them. We went out to the jetty & I used Bryon's rod & he did the baiting up for me. Going to look for a new rod for Bryon when we get to Port Lincoln & I will inherit his old one. A new hobby for me (maybe) :). We have had several feeds of King George Whiting with more in the freezer for later. |
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| No, I didn't clean them! |
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| Lots of company at the fish cleaning hut, very clean with no smells as the pelicans & gulls clean every scrap up. |
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| This is home for 11 days as we decided to stay here over the long weekend. |
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| For those who haven't seen the back of the Nissan, this is the drawer set up where Bryon keeps all the secret men's business stuff. amazing what you can fit in there. |
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| The seats are very comfortable for reading and sewing, the table folds back to 1/3 the size when you don't need it. We haven't used the van shower here at Venus Bay as the water is all bore water & it is not recommended to put through the van, but the facility's here are excellent even a small bath in the ladies which I have made the most of. When we are free camping we do use the shower but not as normal, you wet down first, turn the water off while you soap everything then a very quick rinse to finish off. Tried to get a photo of the shower (empty of course) for George but too hard in a confined space. The bed is fabulously comfortable and we don't tend to get up early and the sound proofing in the van is good, we very rarely hear outside noises. |
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| Bryon's turn to cook, sometimes the bench can get cluttered but housework is minimal and you just learn to put everything away. Doing the dishes is easy as everything is within arms length for putting away. |
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| Love the BBQ, we have had a roast pork and lots of yummy meals done on this, the standard is Bryon cooks the bbq's & I do the salads or vegs. |
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| Crispy skin Atlantic Salmon with a tossed salad served with a nice red wine, so it seems restraunt Porteous is still open! |
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| this is our view from the van. The only drawback here is the Pacific Gulls like to perch on the roof so it sounds like people are wandering around up there & they leave lots of big deposits. |
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| Sunset over the jetty at Haslam! |
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| Bryon took these snaps. We have really enjoyed our stay at Haslam and will be back again next year. |
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| unbelievable colours in this sunset, but was bitterly cold at the time. |
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| Friday 25th Feb; Have been camped at Haslam since Tuesday, about 12 other camps in here at the moment including some couples we have met at several other camps coming across the Nullabor, good facilities, a flushing toilet after long drops & plenty of water to fetch in buckets, so able to shower every day. Very social & one of our neighbors’ has given us some beautiful big crabs already cooked & cleaned, yum! Bryon is out fishing as I write this & also planning on putting our marron nets out after we do some modifications to them to suit crabs. Congratulations to Caitlyn for getting Head Girl at school, we are very proud! Sunday 27th; Went to Smokey Bay yesterday, has a normal caravan park but no free camping & a well stocked general store, prices not much different to Albany. All the coastal towns seem to have long jetty’s left over from the days of sea freight. Off to Streaky Bay tomorrow for groceries & washing & to visit some other camping places to pick out our next stop. Hoping they have a second hand book shop there as we are getting through the pile we have. Have been fighting mosquitos at night in the van until we found a vent behind the microwave that was not screened, much better since Bryon fixed that. Went to a oyster factory today & got shown the grading & sorting they do there, the oyster boats are out most days and we have had a lovely feed for $6 per dozen. Thanks for the comments everyone, George I will get back to you soon with some details about life in the van. I am doing this update standing against a washing machine in a laundromat in Streaky Bay where I have the laptop plugged in to recharge. Just had a feed of whiting & salt & pepper squid for lunch, was yummy! Have been to check out some other camping site but still not sure where we are going after Haslam. |
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| Fowler the cat |
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| Fowler and Lulu |
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| he moved in with us for the three days we were in the park and freloaded on whatever food he could get! Very smoochy & loving. |
