Blue Arsed Fly: Finishing up with Edithburgh to Adelaide

Join Bruce and Elaine as they complete their journey of Southern Western Australia. See their adventure from the beginning here.

Edithburgh was our next stop on the eastern side of the Yorke Peninsula, stayed at the Edithburgh CP a TT park $35 p/n w/o discount with grass sites and gravel with mesh sites as well. Depending on which part of the park you stay in it has the traditional amenity block or unisex amenities, has a family bathroom and disabled facilities as well. This is a popular park for all those mad people who like to go out in minute dinghy’s and try and catch white pointers that are bigger than the boat, mad buggers all of them. The only fish I want to catch is from a fish and chip shop, grilled and preferably already filleted as the bones get caught in your throat. Edithburgh is an ideal port if you don’t want to go any further south, there is a NP at the bottom of the Peninsulsa, another CP at Marion Bay just outside and for those strange ones who like to move about by shanks mare you can stop in the park, I don’t think it has power or water and there may be loos there as well.

We didn’t bother to go further south as we had done that on a previous visit, the w/e we were there they had a seaside market on the Saturday at Stansbury 20 k’s nth of Edithburgh, not a bad market and worth a squiz if you were in the area, the Rissole, egg, bacon, cheese and onion sanga is a good breakfast to have while you are there. Also the next day Edithburgh had a gala day and is worth a squiz as well, after that we drove to Cowbowie 5 k’s away for a very nice Sunday meal at the Cowbowie pub.

After Edithburgh we upped anchor and sailed to Adelaide and stayed at the Adelaide Shores CP on the beach $40 p/n, with good amenities. Now as I have said before you should go to the nearest Tourist Bureau and find out what there is to see. We were there for my Navy reunion, our 48^th year since we all joined up in 1965 and sailed off to HMAS Leeuwin in Perth for a year’s indoctrination and a good time was had by all.

After that me darlings it was home to plan our next grey nomad adventure for next year, I’m thinking outback Queensland even though they’re a weird mob north of the border (Vic border that is).

Before I sign off let me remind you of a few things, all the prices I’ve quoted will change depending on the time of year. Most parks have a low, mid and high season fee schedule so be aware of that, for this trip it was mostly low season as it was winter. It is worth getting the discount card for the three major groups, Big4, Top Tourist and Family Parks, the 10% discount is better in your pocket than theirs. If you’re traveling through WA count the number of mines you pass or see a road sign for, there are oodles of them all over the place. And lastly what a great bunch these Grey Nomads are, they’re always ready to have a chat even though they don’t know you and when you’re towing your van, camper van or driving a motor home don’t forget to salute as you pass each other on the road.

So until next time when you see the Blue Arsed Fly on the back of a Roma caravan stop and have a chat, we’ll talk the ears off anyone.

Cheers

Bruce and Elaine Hathaway

Image: denisbin