We spent a night in Streaky Bay and wished we had more time there. It was a pretty little town and a great caravan park right on the bay. Had a delicious lunch at a fantastic cafe, Mocean , felt like we were in the Mornington Peninsula, probably 50 years ago. Pete finally took the kids fishing, unfortunately they had no luck!For some reason I didn't seem to take any photos of streaky Bay, so sorry no pictures!
Then off to Cowell , another nice little seaside town, on the Spencer Gulf where we needed to spend a night so we could take the ferry to Wallaroo the next day. The highlights here were the playground and the hot cinnamon doughnuts we got from the pub!
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Ferry from Lucky Bay to Wallaroo
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All went well on the ferry until we had to start our cars to drive off of the ferry- to our dismay our car wouldn't start- flat battery, we'd left the fridge connected to the battery and the ferry ride had drained it.You can imagine our feelings of discomfort- we were front row centre there were a lot of cars behind us and next to us- somehow they all seemed to manage to get off without us moving. the ferry guys seemed fairly used to this occurrence, and assured us it happens all the time, maybe thats why their jump start pack was flat....Any way luckily one of the passenger had some jumper leads and was happy to help us out , finally we got the car started and were able to leave the ferry , much to the relief of the passengers trying to get on and us of course!
We than had a one and a half hour drive to Adelaide or what should have been except for the traffic!Only to arrive at the caravan park to discover they didn't have a site large enough for our van. After much heated discussion, the fellow couldn't understand why we didn't want to stay on the road next to the mens toilets with no water, he grudgingly picked up the phone and booked us into a nearby caravan park.This was quite fortunate in the end as we ran into a nice family we'd met earlier in the trip.
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