Wednesday 6th April (Penong – Elliston)

There was quite a bit of rain during the night but not all that cold.  Was hoping that it cleaned the car and van but no such luck, they still look filthy.  On the road by 9.00am and there is blue sky to the West and grey skies to the East which is the way we are heading.  Hopefully no more rain as we call into Ceduna to do a spot of shopping as all of our veggies are gone due to going through quarantine today. 12.30pm and it is still dull with no sun and fairly muggy but thankfully no rain. We have ventured off the road to have a look at Venus Bay which is approx. 5kms out of our way. The caravan park there was filled to the brim and the carpark at the boat ramp had heaps of cars with trailers on the back so guessing there are a lot of people out there fishing.  There were also lots of people on the pier fishing.  I had thoughts that this was going to be just a pretty scenic place to have a look and instead there were so many people around I was stunned. I doubt that there would have been room for our vans if we had wanted to stay. Hope they are all catching fish…… We have just passed a spot on the map called Colton, nothing there at all except for 2 Cemeteries.  One named “Colton Cemetery” and the other named “Colton Catholic Cemetery”, I would have loved to have counted how many graves were in each of them as there is absolutely nothing here. Into Elliston caravan park for a few nights at this stage, paid for 2 but think we may be here for 4 or 5, I guess that will depend on how many fish are caught.

 Fishermen in their Kayaks trying to catch King George Whiting.