We had a great day today! Still struggling with the 2.5 hour time change as the sun doesn’t set here until going on 745pm so we stay out until it’s dark and then start to think about dinner. Leads to a late night by the time we’ve eaten and I’ve blogged and then we do it all again the next day…

This morning we didn’t leave the caravan park until 10am (read 730 in our timing). After getting the sheets and towels out of the dryer at 11pm last night we had an additional 4 loads of wet clothes to bring with us and dry through the day – the joys of quick stopovers with water availability. A week’s worth of washing done around an afternoon and evening of exploring.

We did a lot of town drop ins today on our way to Marion Bay. First stop was Maitland (I know, there is another one), where the carefully researched bakery for some fresh bread (maybe a pie as well) was closed for a family function 🙁 . We enjoyed a walk of the main street where Bob picked up a coffee before heading on to our next town.

We headed back to the coast to Port Victoria. Another place with a jetty overlooking Spencers Gulf. This town has made a lot of its volcanic geological origins. A lovely coastal walk with signage explaining the different rocks and the way they were formed. This town is also the cause of 8 shipwrecks around the nearby Warding Island. It seemed to get in the way of ships getting to port in bad weather….

We enjoyed lunch overlooking the beach and jetty before moving on again. We called in at Corny Point and decided that we’d like to explore this location further without the van, so headed straight to the national park at Marion Bay to offload before heading back for the later afternoon. The coastline is spectacular. Limestone cliffs and granite rocks everywhere. Wheat and barley crops literally to the waters edge.

We finished our expedition at the Corny Point lighthouse before heading back to check out the Stenhouse Bay Jetty adjacent to our campsite.

This area was used in the past to mine and export gypsum (before becoming a national park). There were a lot of ruins associated with the jetty and the loading hoppers etc which was really interesting.

The sky was looking promising for sunset so we headed back to the van so Bob could top up his belly before we walked back to the jetty for some sunset photography. Another lovely evening.

We arrived back at the van after 8pm and then decided to start a fire and think about dinner (see why we haven’t managed to change time zones yet?). A very full but fun day of poking around the peninsula. We are sitting at the fire listening to music while I blog and Bob catches up on the news of the world. Hard to imagine that in just over 2 weeks we’ll be putting on office clothes and heading back to work.

Tomorrow we won’t be rushing out and plan to stay in the national park area to see the local attractions. Glad to be having a 2 night stopover after our huge travel few days.