Eyre Peninsula – Feb 2021 – Point Drummond

It’s bye bye Port Lincoln and hello Great Australian Bight, on the continuation of our Eyre Peninsula excursion.

For the astute readers, no, you’re not missing anything. You may be wondering what happened to days 3 through 5. These were spent on a business event in Port Lincoln and so haven’t made it to this travel blog.

Day 6 began with the usual readying of the van and car for travel. Then it was off to Port Lincoln Caravan Centre for a replacement awning torsion spring. As already mentioned in our McLaren Vale post, we lost the toggle that switches the awning between roll-out and roll-in mode. Unfortunately, this part cannot be replaced by itself, you must replace the entire spring/tension mechanism. I had MacGyver‘d a temporary fix, but it was working loose and threatened to fall off. On the Friday, we visited this store in search of awning tie down clips. While there, we asked about the part and it turned out they had a second-hand torsion spring available for $20. An extra $55 for labour and we were done. Very happy.

Coffin Bay

After the awning repair, our plan was to head to Coffin Bay and probably stay there for a day or so. Coffin Bay is a pretty little town, and the bay itself is stunning, but we were in the mood to free camp and there just wasn’t anything around. Megan needed to work, so we parked up for a while. We chose the local boat ramp where there was plenty of parking and even an RV dump point (we didn’t need it, but it suggested RVs were welcome). I took Jack Jack for a walk at this point, where he decided he just had to go for a swim! When watching this video, please remember that Jack himself jumped down the rocks and into the water. He caught me by surprise. I didn’t think he’d jump. My bad.

On the way back out to the highway there was a lookout over the town and bay. Unfortunately, as you can see in the photos below, the nearby brush makes taking a decent photo difficult, even if you stand on the waist-high, concrete and metal direction indicator that is there, as I did. A few other visitors pulled up while we were there, and most never bothered to leave their cars. However, having a drone means we can get shots from above this brush anyway, and that footage is also here for your viewing pleasure.

Coffin Bay

Coffin Bay

Coffin Bay

Coffin Bay

On leaving Coffin Bay we also leave the traditional Eyre Peninsula lands of the Barngala and pass into the lands of the Nauo Barngala.

Point Drummond

After deciding not top stop at Coffin Bay, we searched on Wikicamps for a new destination. We found what we were looking for at Point Drummond Camp 2, about 75 km to the north. Upon arrival we found 2 other caravans already set up, and not really enough space for a third. We had passed a likely spot a kilometre or two back up the road, and that is where we stopped for the night.

First job after set up and a bit of exploring was to de-prickle Jack. He managed to back himself through a prickle bush earlier in the day, and it took us about 90 minutes, and some amount of hair conditioner, to get them all out of his fur. After that, it was a peaceful evening, with only the stars, the ocean and the wind for company.

More Eyre Peninsula fun to come.