Day 16

We woke this morning to the sound of heavy rain on the roof.  We then decided that we were not going to move onto Perlubie Beach as it looked like we were in for a bad day (we will do this later in the year on our way home).  We stayed in Streaky Bay and the day turned out to be one out of the box.  We got some information from the office here at the caravan park and there are a couple of drives that you can do.  We decided to do the Cape Bauer Loop.  We packed ourselves a picnic lunch and filled the flask and we started off.  Our first stop was at Cape Bauer.  Off the coast here was an island that is named “Olive” island.  We thought this was rather funny, Graham had to take a photograph of me with the island in the background.  We had morning tea here, banana bread and a cuppa.  The scenery was absolutely beautiful.   Then off to the Blow Holes and Whistling Rocks.  The Blow Holes were not blowing but the sea around there was very rough.  The sound the Whistling Rocks made was incredible; the wind coming through made a whistling sound.  We then moved onto Hallys Beach where we had lunch and then a walk on the beach.  We stole your idea Shaz, and because the beach was so quiet we wrote our name in the sand and took a photograph.  At most of the stops along the way we could have been the only people in the world, it was so peaceful.  We are very lucky here in Australia, no matter where we go the coastline is absolutely incredible.  None more so than what we saw today.  The loop probably took us 3 -4 hours and we enjoyed every minute.  The weather turned out fine (it was about 20⁰ but quite windy along the coast).  Later in the afternoon we took a walk along the beach here at the caravan park, lots of Pelicans and of course we had to take the mandatory photograph.  All in all a really good day

Cape Bauer

 

Streaky Bay Caravan Park in the distance