Port Lincoln, Sheringa, Sheringa Beach, Murphys Haystacks, Streaky Bay

This Wednesday marked the 8th week since leaving home. We have covered over 4000km's on our circumnavigation route and over 5400kms in total. To date we have burnt over  1000L of diesel so our carbon footprint is somewhat out of control, but on the upside no one has murdered anyone yet.

Port Lincoln - Statue of a horse called Makybe Diva on the foreshore in town. Triple Melbourne Cup winner 2003, 2004, 2005 and awarded the most memorable sporting moment by the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame 2005. Extremely windy for the 3 days we stayed here.

 Sheringa Roadhouse. Miles from anywhere but this place could provide you anything you could ever need from fuel, food, beer, fishing gear, clothes, shower or anything else you could imagine. We stopped off for an ice cream and sat at the outside bar watching the world go by for a while. (Nothing went by in the time we sat there)

 Sheringa Beach - Free camping right on a beach celebrated for its spectacular ocean views, amazing surf, white sand and crystal blue waters. The girls got to body board with a couple of dolphins in the shore break and not a tourist or tour operator anywhere near so a saving of a couple of hundred dollars there. Amazing place to chill out for a while.

 Murphys Haystacks - a geological wonder over 1500 million years old. Named by a Scottish agricultural expert who believed they looked like haystacks. Family photo in front of a few of the stones.

 Streaky Bay - Small town on the North Western top end of the Eyre Peninsula. Home to a replica of the largest white pointer shark ever caught with a rod and reel at over 5m long and 1520kg which was caught off Streaky Bay in 1990. Somehow Ellie managed to get her head in its mouth. Despite the shark we went swimming in the sea which must be the warmest sea in the whole world. No wonder the sharks grow big.

And tonight we rest, for tomorrow and the next few days the weather reports are saying that it should be cooler (high 30's) and the winds to be from the south east, so we are going to head west on to the Nullabor Plains and make a break for the Western Australia boarder. It may take a week or so to cross but if the winds swing round to come from the west and the weather gets over 40 we may just hunker down somewhere.