Off the Nullarbor and to Streaky Bay

Left Nullarbor roadhouse around 9.30am. Mark tried to have a shower this morning, as you need to put in a dollar coin so you get 5 min shower but no his didn't work. I had tried lily the night before and popped $1 in and got a cold shower. We headed only 10 mins up the road to the whale centre, the head of the Great Australian Bight and were hoping to see some whales.  A few cars were there so it was a good sign. We asked the attendant,’are there any whales today’; yes there were about 6 in at the moment with their calves. They come here every year to give birth from the Antarctic and stay for the winter months until mid spring. The calves’ put on about 60-80 kg a day, wow mum must have a lot of milk. We reached the platform area and some people said turn right so we went to the furthers lookout and it was such a surprise to see about 4 whales plus their calves lazing around and laying on their backs and sticking their noses out of the water. They were so close enough to the coast to hear the water being expelled from their blowholes. An amazing experience to see. Mark and Dylan saw a calf breach out of the water coming down with a huge splash. The whales and their calves slowly moved down the coast and were at times out of sight as they go deep into the sea. Mark had counted 14 in total whales. A well worth trip to the whale centre. We headed off hoping to get to streaky bay today.

A whale

A view of the whales, they are there in  the distance if you look hard

 We stopped off at a rest area for lunch, as everyone was getting a little grumpy. This rest area was, as the boys put it, fly central. There were so many flies we could hardly butter sandwiches. We all jumped in the car to eat; otherwise we would have been eating flies. Got to the Ceduna quarantine area and were ready to hand over our honey, much to Oliver's disappointment, carrots and an onion. We cooked up our potatoes last night. The guy said what have you got, and I handed over our bag of goodies. He said you can keep the carrots and the honey, and it was a relief for Oliver, as he was getting a bit sad about giving up the honey. 

Oliver thought he would drink the honey before we crossed the border, but in the end we could keep it.

We arrive in the town of Ceduna and park the car and Mark,Lily and Dylan go and get more supplies in the local IGA supermarket. Oliver and I stayed put at the car. Many aboriginals standing around on the streets, and actually yelling in their language entertained us. Oliver kept saying to me lock the doors. I had said, what if I take a photo of them Oliver." Oh my mum you do that your eyes will be as black as their skin, you'll be beaten up. ", Is what Oliver said and I had to laugh.  

Another hour on to get to Streaky Bay and it rains slightly on the way, we hoped the clouds would move on and they did. The caravan park is directly on the beach and there are many vans there. We get a spot close to camper’s kitchen, which is what we wanted so we didn't have to get our tables and chairs out. Boys ran quickly down to the beach, which was only 20 metres from the camp, and there were 17 pelicans, boys had counted them. It was the fish cleaning area and there were 4 fishermen cleaning their fish and I guess the pelicans wait for scraps as well as the seagulls. Boys we're playing a game and counted the fish being caught by the seagulls and pelicans, the end result was pelicans 7 and seagulls 6. The boys were going for the pelicans and they won. 

We all had a walk along the bay and spoke to different people doing traveling as well, mainly the elder people. Boys and Lily found the games room and that kept them occupied until dinnertime. We did all our cooking in the camp kitchen and we ate in there too. After dinner we continued the uno championship, as this will be decided at the end of the week as the holiday ceases. We all won at least game each and Oliver now takes the lead from Mark.  We went to bed and starting laughing as the campsites were really close to each other and all we could hear was the guy next door snoring, actually for a moment we thought it could be Ricey next door. Another funny thing was we could hear someone with a lot of zippers on their camper, as we heard zip,zip,zip.