After we decided to leave Murphy’s Haystacks, we thought again about the sea lion colony but the road was muddy, gravel and about 50 odd km so decided heading south was a better idea, first stop Port Kenny, a sleepy little almost forgettable town, had a pub and not much else, but would be a great place to fish, well everywhere here seems to be a great place to fish.

Next was Venus bay, slightly larger and more attune to prawn trawler fishing, with a couple of trawlers moored up at the semi circular jetty, that’s something else every town has here is a jetty, some historic, some ancient, some heritage, all of some fame or something.

Also here was a group of Pelicans, behaving in much the same way as all pelicans, trying to perch on lamp posts, tall parts of boats, small children, in fact anything they could and also looking out for anything to eat…. Probably including those small children! There is something unnerving about a Pelican focusing all it’s gaze on you from a height, wondering if it should eat you or crap on you!

Leaving the jetty we decided on doing the ‘South Headland Coast Walk’ that leaves from just up the road from the town centre (walking distance from caravan park) We quickly renamed this the south headland whoompa walk, as the pounding of the surf on the undercut cliffs that you walk right on top off make that whommpa noise when they hit. But amazing small walk and at times a little crazy when you see where you walk, despite them saying don’t walk near the cliff edges.

But the scenery is spectacular and the wave power amazing, video just never does it justice, despite being moody skies, we didn’t get wet… well not from rain.

Leaving Venus Bay we tottered on down towards Elliston and hoping for a spot in our first caravan park, it’s now been 8 days and we were due to do a washing, top up water tanks, recharge not only Little Bus but ourselves as well, But first we wanted to call in to the Talia caves on the way. Talia cave is a big sea cave on the west coast which ,given our experience with the whoomping of Venus Bay, sounded like a good idea, so turn right and drive in we did. We were not disappointed, to access the caves its a staircase down, then a quick walk around into the cave while keeping an eye on the waves crashing in, at one point I was sure we were below the water line!

Whilst deep there seems to be a lot of hype about this cave and I’m not sure why, Is that youtube making you feel like there should be something more? or is it better not knowing what to expect and enjoying it for what it is? Anyway still enjoyed it and just up the road is the tub….. a collapsed sea cave that still has an underground passage to the sea and fills with water during high tide. to get down into it you literally have to climb a tree… so don’t… simple really!

You can camp here but we really felt the need for a nice long hot shower. We snagged the last spot in the Waterloo Bay caravan park, did our jobs that we needed to do, and then had a nice quiet afternoon followed by a long hot shower, a walk around the foreshore, then a walk in to the pub. The local pub is not one of those five star high ‘falutin’ fashionable kind of spots but reputably has simple good olde fashioned pub grub, think parmy and a pint and you can’t go too wrong with the expectations.

We tried a few SA beverages, which really hit the spot and went down possibly a bit too easily. Follow this with an interesting bangers and mash, then a short stagger home back to the little bus, and we crashed into bed and slept like kings , clean, full bellys, warm and quiet.