Day 39 9/10 (Sat) – Streaky Bay to Fowlers Bay

Driving day today. Dropped in to Smoky Bay as listed as windsurfing location in info guide. No windsurfing happening although certainly looked promising with lots of shallow water and gentle cross shore wind. After cold water experience yesterday though, decided not to pull the boards and sails out and give it a proper test. On to Ceduna for few groceries and picnic lunch by the shore. finally acquired interim cheapy watch to replace the lost one. Chris will be eternally grateful that I’ll now stop bugging him constantly for the time. Took a detour down to Cactus Beach – supposed to be world renowned for 3 great surf breaks (not that we would know). Eventually missed the turn off to the beach (god knows how!) after jolting us and Colin down the 21 km dirt road to get there but found an absolute gem of a bay out towards the Point Sinclair (Port Le Hunte). turquoise ocean, sand dunes, jetty and shark net fenced swimming beach. Hadn’t thought about the fact that the sandy road down to the bay was only one lane wide so quite a surprise to meet people coming the other way, especially when towing a caravan! they kindly pulled over and let us through. Found the beach on the way back and undoubtedly the waves looked impressive, even to our untrained eyes. The other clue was the surfers out there. Seemed to have taken us all day to get this relatively short distance so on turning down yet another dirt road to Fowlers Bay at 4.30, so if the caravan park there looked OK, we decided to stop the night and set off for the Nullarbor tomorrow. Interesting little town among the huge sand dunes and the park looked fine (our neighbouring campers in Coffin Bay had recommended it too so pretty safe bet).