Fowlers Bay

It has been a whirlwind of travelling over the past few days.  We left Streaky Bay and headed only a few hundred kilometres for Fowlers Bay.  I haven't posted for a while because from Streaky Bay to today there has been little to no service where we have been.  We are now only map reading and no longer using GPS.  Using maps gives us a clear sense of where we are something you don't get with a GPS.  So I will now try to catch up on a few days.  There is so much to say and we have experienced so much in the last 4 or 5 days ....

We arrived in Fowlers Bay Friday 9 January.  We took what we thought would be a dirt road in off the highway and it certainly was but it was a shocking corrugated road! We were all still feeling like we were vibrating after we had stopped! We travelled about 30 kilometres on this road not sure what this would be like.  Eagerly peering around each bend and hill in the road craning our necks to see what we were going to break out on.  As we reached our destination we were rewarded with a story book scene.  We were catapulted out onto this amazing beach of pristine white sand, crystal blue green waters and beach as far as our eyes could see!

We landed in Fowlers Bay.  Here we fished, camped, climbed sand dunes and made some wonderful friends.  Fowlers Bay is an old whaling town.  Now occupied by about 20 residents on a good day!  Fowlers Bay is the only eco park in the Outback that is totally self sufficient.  It exists entire OFF the grid.

Here we made friends with two other families who I think we will keep in touch with.  Both families are travelling around the country for an indefinite amount of time, working as they go.  They are both heading west so we hope to run into them again.

The boys fished off the jetty one day and made friends with the locals.  Tim and Bill shared their fishing rods with the boys and were treated to a great show of tumbling into the sea.

We loved it here so much we decided to stay a second night.  We spent the day fishing off the beach.  In South Australia you can drive on the beach so all three families drove down away from the jetty to fish.  It was the best day!  The boys caught 22 fish between them.  King George Whiting and Tommy Ruff (Australian Salmon).  Together we had the most amazing dinner!  I'll start a page, On the Menu, to write up the beautiful food we are making!

Here's Fowlers Bay