Ellison sculptures by the cliffs, Port Lincoln, Lincoln national park (21-25 Oct 2010)

Hello all,

Matt here, I trust everyone is doing grand!!!

With all the flat areas we are hitting along the way for telecommunications including internet, I wanted to post this quick blog out to keep you all up-dated on our journey thus far...

Since coming across the WA border into South Australia, the coastline has been quite superb and some of the camping spots, particularly in national parks has been fantastic.  The weather has been very kind to us, although we have been plagued by flies and we have had to resort to wearing our $8.00 fly veils LOL.

There has been a few surprises along the way with the sculpture by the cliffs in Ellison, and loads of Kangaroos and Emus just grazing out side our van when parked up in the national parks.

I must say there is something very relaxing watching these animals behave in the wild, and you can't help but feel some kind of a connection to nature.

Port Lincoln was a very friendly town where we discovered at their local library, you can use their free WI FI connection and this applies to every library in the state, GO SA!

We even found out that when Emus have chicks, it is the male that looks after them (please see pic) and when I walked outside to view the full moon to my amazement, I saw two male Kangaroos fighting just on the grass in the picture below.

We left Port Lincoln today (25 Oct 2010) and are on our way to Wyalla, Port Augusta and then up to Coober Pedy.

We will try to get the blog out as much as we can, but I envisage no internet coverage once we start to head towards Coober Pedy, so please forgive us if a blog is not posted within the next week or two...

On a sad note I just wanted to say, we saw the last episode of 'The Bill' the other night and Louise and I were both terribly upset, after having watched it from it's infancy 27 years ago. Our Saturday nights will never be the same...  Boo!

Hope you are all very well and are enjoying our blog, stay well and feel free to comment.

Matt xoxoxox

The attack of the flies!  24.10.10

Our camp spot in the Lincoln national park where kangaroos and emus would be feeding on the grass in the photo taken. We even saw kangaroos having a punch-up in the full moon, which was the first time for us!

The father and his chicks in tow feeding them from just outside our camp spot.

For all you Melbourne cup fans, this photo was taken in Port Lincoln SA (home of the famous race horse Makybe Diva) which has the largest fishing fleet in Australia this town of 15,000 apparently has more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in Australia. 

I can see why, after I was very keen to dive with great white sharks, only to discover it would set me back a mere $495.00 and I was not even guaranteed to see a shark.

If I did not see any sharks I had the option of paying a half price ticket to go out for a second day, but, still not guaranteed to see a shark!

'HOW'S THAT FOR VALUE?'

One of the many sculptures we discovered on our coastal drive around Ellison.  21.10.10

Eat your heart out Geoff Williams, who is a friend of ours back in Sydney who regularly like us also visited the yearly Bondi sculptures by the sea exhibition and we would frequent the art galleries of Sydney.

Matt could not resist getting a photo opportunity.

If you look closely in the foreground you can see a blue tongue (shingle) lizard...

There were many on the day, every time you jumped out of the car to look at an art piece, there was a lizard there to welcome you.

Does this sculpture remind you of somewhere else?

This was my favorite!

Louise and her flip flops/thongs -  she loves her foot wear.

This was also one of my favorites.

Adios from matt and louise