Kylefun: DAY 9 – PORT LINCOLN – LINCOLN NATIONAL PARK

Saturday, 6 April 2013

DAY 9 – PORT LINCOLN – LINCOLN NATIONAL PARK

Those who have enjoyed the hospitality of Warren and Shaz in NZ will relate to this picture.

Another brilliant day weather wise as the picture shows.

Somehow it took us until 11:00am to get going today. All I did before then was get up, have breakfast and go seafood shopping. It must be the influence of all the older people we are sharing the park with. We feel like the young couple. The fact that we don’t seem to get up until 8:00am helps. From now on, we will get up an hour earlier in that daylight saving ends tonight. Do we put the clocks forward or backwards an hour?

We are having scallops and snapper for tea tonight. It wasn’t snapper we had last night, it was king fish fillets, very nice too.

The rest of the day was spent in the very picturesque Lincoln National park just south of here. It contains some brilliant camping sites which we are not able to avail ourselves of. We will have to come back.

The much maligned Range Rover got to be a hero today in that we came across a young couple bogged to the axles on a sand dune. We had parked off the dune and walked up given that I didn’t want to go to all the trouble of letting the tyres down and pumping them up again to navigate the very rough road we had to traverse to get back to Port Lincoln. As we walked up, Troy was walking down and asked if we had a four wheel drive. We could hardly say no so back to the car I went, let the tyres down and, notwithstanding a protesting air suspension, snatched him out of the not insignificant hole he had dug for himself. I suspect he would still be there if we hadn’t come along. There were very few people around.