Usually packing up and getting on the road after a one night
stop takes between 5 and 15 minutes. When we stop for longer than one night the
pack up time seems to expand exponentially! This morning it was about 2 hours
because it seems that everything that we had tucked in a nook or cranny in the
truck had made its way out and was liberally strewn around our site! Just
before 10 we rolled out and as it was a spectacular day we headed back to
Horseshoe Bay for a morning on the beach.
I love this little nook in the SA
coast and am positive I will return here again soon. Warnie and Nia headed into
Port Elliot (about 3 blocks away) to get some breakfast while we lazed on the
beach as well as swam out to the pontoon that was moored 70 or so meters off
shore.
Just before lunch we packed up and farewelled our guests, a
little more sunburnt than when they arrived, stocked up in Victor Harbour and
headed to Deep Creek Conservation Park, which is right at the end of the
Fleurieu Peninsula, another tiring 45 minute drive away! We set up camp with Kangaroo
Island visible through the tree line and the boys and I decided to go for a quick
drive down to Blow Hole Beach while De got the van organised. The beach was
only 1.5km away so we thought we would just check it out and come back, until
we found that the track down there was something that resembled a ski slope and
needed to be driven in Low 4WD. The whole beach is only about 200m wide, white
sand framed by rocky cliffs with crystal clear water and a clean right hand 2ft
break. It looked to bloody good to miss so we grabbed the boogie boards, caught
some great waves and headed back after
about half an hour thinking we would come back for a big swim tomorrow.
Not long after we returned to camp the park ranger turned up
and informed us that the whole park would be closed from 9am tomorrow morning
due to extreme fire danger and that we had to be packed up and gone by
then.....bugger...the worst part was that we couldn’t go back to the beach in
the morning...and I didn’t have my camera, so I have had to borrow some pictures
of this cracking place.
We had a quite night reading and enjoyed the quite solace of
bush camping after having a big weekend of being the noisy neighbours! It was a pretty warm night...but not for to long!
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