Travel Blogs from Coffin Bay, Australia
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The Eyre Peninsula
... Grey kangaroos, emus and an array of birds - Stunning reflections over Coffin Bay - Coastal scenery and National Parks, including Whalers Way ...
Day 37 - 39 Farm Beach
... sensational swim in the clear, clean, non smelly water 150m from our campsite. Whilst on the beach we ran into our neighbour from Coffin Bay (the winemaker who had gifted us the bottle of Penfolds), he had been out all day fishing with a mate. They were ...
Living the good life in Coffin Bay.
... shower, had the block to myself and saw noone else near it all morning. Headed off to the town jetty to meet Darrian for our Coffin Bay Explorer tour, which turned out to be a major highlight. We now know why Coffin Bay oysters really ARE the best – ...
Coffin Bay National Park
Camped at Coffin Bay NP for a couple of nights. Biked into Coffin Bay itself, almost a 40kms round trip! Saw Goannas, Blue Tongue and Stumpy tail lizzards, they all ran away before we could get photos!! Roos and Emus galore!! B&B ...
Coffin Bay
... to more than 4000 in the summer months. There are a lot of different types of holiday accommodation available. Coffin Bay has an active commercial wharf in town. You can see the fishing boats unload their catches including crayfish, ...
Day NINETY
... Murphy’s Haystacks. We thought the rocks were very oddly placed in the middle of the wheat fields. We then drove onto Coffin Bay which I didn’t like the sound of but is a really pretty fishing village surrounded by national parks that would be ...
DAY5
... Kept to the coast, went all way down to Port Lincoln on the Peninsula and are currently staying in the tiny holiday town of Coffin Bay. Will spend day or two checking out walking trail and Nat Parks in area. Had kangaroos right outside our van last night. ...
Put the nail in the coffin
... 3. Seriously cliffed out. The Grand Prix racing track road gave us more entertainment than the scenery on an afternoon out in Coffin Bay National Park. Clay appears to be rediscovering his sense of humour and has me in tears 5. Most expensive park yet. ...
wet but beautiful Coffin Bay N.P. adventures
... -Kenntnisse weiter zu trainieren, haben wir uns eine Tabelle mit den Tidenzeiten besorgt und uns in die abgelegenen Ecken des Coffin Bay Nationalparks aufgemacht. Ein Grossteil des Parks ist nur bei Ebbe ueber einen Track, der am Strand der Seven Mile ...
The breathtaking Coffin Bay
... them almost to the end... the beach looked a bit iffy to drive on so we walked over the last dune... the sight of Coffin Bay was AMAZING!!! We had barely caught a glimpse of it on the way there, it's so hidden, but this huge sweeping bay went for ...
Day 33 - 37 Coffin Bay
... become increasingly windy and we are happy to be moving on from our exposed site at Port Lincoln. We have heard wonderful things about Coffin Bay and are keen to spend some time there. Driving into Coffin Bay (only 10 songs, in kids speak) the views are ...
The Bunkhouse is on the road again
The Bunkhouse is out of the shed and on the road again and we are parked at a beautiful spot at Coffin Bay. It is going to be the quietest night we have had in 4 months. The quiet is unbelievable after being in a city for so long!! The other thing we did ...
Just a slight diversion
We only stopped in at Coffin Bay to buy some more of these famous oysters that grow in this ...
Coffin Bay
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 (Written by Stephen) Driving to Coffin Bay A pretty non-eventful day today as we again packed up the van and fuelled up to head again further south east to Coffin Bay. It was only 150km and again the landscape ...
DAY 48 - COFFIN BAY NATIONAL PARK - BEES
... 't a problem. The shop was also a cafe so I sat out front whilst I waited and had a coffee. All gassed up I headed over to Coffin Bay National Park which was just a few kilometres out of town. My Camps Guide had suggested a camp site here and I planned to ...
DAY 47 - ELLISTON TO COFFIN BAY - BIRDS
... stop was the deathly sounding Coffin Bay. This place is lovely and really picturesque and not spooky as the name suggests. Coffin Bay was discovered by Lieutenant Matthew Flinders and his crew on the 16th February 1802. Flinders named the bay after his ...
OYSTERS, WILDERNESS & A SMALL TOWN
... appearance in the sky one night and of course sunrise and sunset afforded photo opportunities. MONDAY OCTOBER 10 JOURNEY: Coffin Bay, Wangary, Farm Beach, Port Lincoln On Monday we drove to Point Avoid and Golden Beach at 7am ...
Eyre Peninsula aka When Bad Bees Go Badder
... realised the groceries had to be put away. Thinking it was safe to go out and pack the essentials into the fridge including the dozen coffin bay oysters Jo picked up on the way back to camp (cause you can't go to coffin bay and not have the local ...
PORT GIBBON - COFFIN BAY
... our lips. Two big thumbs down to 'The Pantry' in Port Lincoln. After a bit of fluffing around in Lincoln we returned to Coffin Bay where a veritable piece of pasta magic was woven by the good husband for the bride's birthday and it was relished by ...
Oyster Town
During the drive from Elliston to Coffin Bay I was confronted with sheep being herded on the major highway...the owners had put a sign on the side of the road to slow vehicles down thankfully, otherwise, anyone going a few kilometres too quick, may ...
More National Park
... back to Port Lincoln briefly to drop off the key and pick up more groceries before heading up the road to Coffin Bay, home of arguable the best oyster's in Australia. We set up camp then caught up with Ray, Ange and their kids who we had met in Port ...
The Great Australian Bite
The clocks went forward another hour last night but we weren't going to get caught out again. I was on a mission. Room Service was booked for 7.30 and I was determined to grab the best sun loungers by the pool in the the solarium. This is the nicest part ...
Pt Lincoln- Coffin Bay Day trip
Went for a day trip to see if we'd like to stay at Coffin Bay. The answer was a resounding no. If you are a fisherman and own a boat you would probably love it. Very large National Park is beautiful. Amazing. Not much of a ...
Coffin Bay
... of Cape Barren Geese on the beach. After lunch we went fishing in Avoid Bay, no luck, then did a drive into the town of Coffin Bay. We went back to the National Park and went for a walk on Almonta Beach. This was a freezing cold day, ...
Vampire Holiday Place
... on what we now call the Eyre Highway. There was nothing to see but a sign, dad thought it might be of interest. We arrived at Coffin Bay late in the day and to a beautiful sunset, sadly this is not the place Vampires come for holiday. It was named after a ...
The End is Neigh!
... never the less. After a few nights at Streaky Bay we all started to head south east. Our final destination was Coffin Bay, however a quick stop at the Seal Lion Colony at Point Labatt. Once again we were on a cliff looking ...
Rugged beauty, emu's galore
... had for lunch we ventured over to the neighbours for a chat before retiring around 9.30pm. Day 248 Wednesday Morgan’s Landing Coffin Bay National Park We slept to around 6.45am this morning; the sunrise had reached a light pearly sheen on the clouds ...
A couple of days to recharge
Despite recent shark attacks we still headed for Coffin Bay National Park!! A short bush walk when we got there was not quite so short due to Jo's exceptionally bad map reading - what was supposed to be a 2 km stroll ended up being a bit more ...
Its all over Red Rover..... WE DID IT!!!!!!
... , did not help my cause at all. I had never taken much notice of the islands between Port Lincoln and Coffin Bay and until recently, had not known that this trip by water is actually further than traveling from Adelaide to Port Lincoln. ...
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