14 November 2011 Robe South Australia
Aiko slept well last night, and as a result so did we, thank goodness.
A red light on the toilet signal my first, and unavoidable, task of the day, a visit to the park “Dump Point” (my old friend “apparently”). What a way to start the day!
After breakfast we headed off to Beachport, about 45km south of Robe. We decided to take the coastal dirt road so we could call in and have a look at Nora Creina. Nora Creina is on private property, and is a “quaint” little village, where small parcels of land have been leased out to fisherman, who have then built fishing shacks there. It looks like it would be a fisherman’s heaven, fairly primitive living conditions and only a matter of minutes to the beach where you can launch tinnies from or take a drive up around the bay to find your own “secret” fishing spot. I almost forgot, we are now in the country, so don’t forget
to lock the gate as you pass through!
Between Nora Creina and Beachport we called in to have a look at the Woakwine Cutting. It is essentially a channel that was carved through a hill to drain an inland swamp. It was carved out by two men over a period of 3 years. It is 1km long
and they removed 276,000 cubic meters of material to make it. An amazing testament to the tenacity of some people.
From there we took the short drive onto Beachport, the home of the second longest jetty (772m) in SA. It used to be over 1220m long, but it wasn’t built very well and they had to
take down the outer “T head and the last about 300m to make it safe. Today the steel pillars holding it up are all showing signs of their time in the ocean and look to be badly rusting.
I took Aiko out for a walk along the jetty while Deb was taking photos, we got about half way out and she sank down onto her belly and wasn’t going any further. She looked
terrified, I guess she didn’t like being surrounded by water and so far away from shore in the strong winds (or did she sense something about the jetty the rest of us missed?). So I picked her up and took her back to the safety of solid ground. We passed Deb on the way
back, I told her to keep going out to the end, at least one of us had to make it. 🙂
When Deb got back we went for a walk around town, that consisted of a stroll of about 200m return, there isn’t a lot to Beachport!
We decided to have lunch there, so we went to the fish and chip shop across the road from the jetty, got a table outside and had local Snapper, salad and chips for lunch as
Aiko tried to bark at every seagull she saw. The fish was very nice.
The local fish co-op was next-door to where we had lunch, I mused at a parking sign out in front, a permit zone for “Commercial Lobster Buyers”, that ran from Oct to May.
In the afternoon I spent time relaxing with Aiko while Deb took herself into town to have a walk along the main street and check out all the shops. The sun is out with blue
skies and a bit of wind, its all so relaxing.
I have decided to get Aiko her own Facebook page so she can be checked in with us and so she can share her perspective on things. 🙂 I hope she gets a few friends. 🙂
Deb has it all done and is having lots of fun with it. Lets see how many friends she can get. She is “Aiko Woof” on Facebook. 🙂
We spent the rest of the afternoon reading and relaxing.
Tomorrow, we are going back to Kingston to get some Cray and have a look around.
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