Smoky BBQ

They're clean!

The day in Ceduna was finally a chance to wash clothes and stand still for a few hours (sort of). The first thing we did was breakfast; with limited supplies it was toast with tomatoes and olive oil. Continental.

I wanted to go to the beach and film a little video clip of me writing a message in the sand for my beautiful niece for her birthday. So after breakfast we walked down to the beach and took a look at the clear water, had a little paddle, obviously. Then I wrote the message. We used the showers, beautiful hot showers! 


Whilst waiting for the washing to do I picked up a book, just to have a nose, and my nose got stuck in the book. Once the washing was all dry and clean, Marco washed the car... the muck that came off was immense. Dirty car. 

With a semi-clean car it was straight to the shops for supplies, we wanted to treat ourselves to a BBQ. We did our shopping, without a list, we're mad like that! After which we headed towards Smoky Bay. 

I have to say, I do enjoy the names of the places around here. Smoky Bay, Streaky Bay, Anxious Bay, Coffin Bay; whoever named these must have had a nervous disposition. 

Once we got to Smoky Bay 
along the almost perfect bitumen road paths (lies 4wd map! LIES!). We stopped and set up the stove on top of the BBQ area (we weren't paying for the expensive hot plate). It was time to cook some sausages and have a sausage butty. About time we remembered lunch for a change... wait, where's that sundial gone?


Once we had happily stuffed our faces we went for a walk down the jetty to check it out. Marco wanted to do some fishing so we walked down to the rocky area for Marco to precariously dig around for bait. Once we had some bait we went back to the jetty and I completed some blog writings and Marco, as always, pretended to catch some fish. 

It was clearly quite promising when they have to section off a caged area for humans to swim in "No Shark's Allowed." I thought we were against discrimination these days? Surely there's space enough for everyone?... 

Ok maybe not. 

After heading back to the car because I was particularly uncomfortable leaning on the wobbly rail of the jetty (that meant if I leant too far to either side I would have gone in backwards!) I sat in the car and finished up my blog writings.

Once finished I got a jacket and headed back to the jetty, where, you would never believe it! Marco had caught a fish... WHAT? A real life fish?! Well I never. He had in fact caught two and used one as bait. I missed all the action! 


Content with his achievement and with the sun beginning to set it was time to head off to find a spot to sleep for the night. With little to no plan we caught the sunset and headed off in the ever increasing darkness to a Wikicamps location and stopped near the sea. 
When we woke up the next day we were treated to a beautiful view that we weren't expecting. For all the mishaps we have had on our journey so far, sometimes you truly appreciate why you are doing this and what beauty you can experience 













Good Morning, Australia!