20/04/12 - A Whaler's Way of a time

The surf in the background adds a bit of gravitas to the sign's message...

Theakstone cravasse - don't go down there!

No osprey's here...

Rugged, dangerous coastline

It had taken two weeks, but Annaliza finally got a morning run in along the beach. Tony decided against it…  After, it was straight to Port Lincoln tourist office to stock up on tourist brochures and then onward to a privately owned ‘nature reserve’ called Whalers Bay. Don’t really know why it’s privately owned, but the amount of signs stressing how dangerous the cliffs were combined with numerous memorials potentially meant that SA’s national parks office wanted nothing to do with it… Again, wildlife spotting didn’t work for us – no Whales in the whole area, no ospreys at Osprey reef and a lack of seals at the Seal lookout. Instead we satisfied ourselves with the rugged coastal landscape and the Beaut performing some ‘controlled’ sand sliding…

Flinders'monument, and
the lesser known Tony
Sturge monument...

Lincoln NP

The Lincoln National Park was lovely, but time was not on our side so we only managed a quick walk up to a lookout – again we couldn’t escape Flinders and his exploits in Australia, which this time focused on the 8 crew members lost and the naming of Memory Cove. Of more immediate interest was the young lovers we interrupted at the peak – rarely have we seen two people move apart so quickly!

Key Learnings

1.       ING aren’t the easiest bank to deal with.

2.       It was easier getting memorials erected in your name in Matthew Flinders’ day than it is in ours…