Coffin Bay NP

Coffin Bay
10-12 December

There was a general feeling amongst the troops of wanting to stay put somewhere for a while and Wangi Beach Camp at Coffin Bay National Park looked like the place it would be. We found a secluded spot at the opposite end of the beach from the only other campers and the boys set up camp while I cooked dinner. Wangi Bay itself is small and shallow but the boys managed to wade out and have a swim anyway next morning. Then some volunteer bush regenerators turned up and commenced to cut down all the brightly flowering yellow daisies around camp. When they left after a couple of hours, we continued where they left off removing every plant we could find around the camping area.

From coffin bay NP

That took up most of the rest of the day, although we found time for a short fish from the Coffin Bay Jetty late in the afternoon as showers swept across the bay. I caught a whiting and Bro caught a couple of herring (called Tommy Roughs in South Australia) but that was all.
Next day, Asher drove twiggy up the 4WD track to 7 mile beach as we had heard it was a good place to fish for whiting. Bro insisted we stop at a nice sand dune along the way.

From coffin bay NP

The boys each caught another whiting as well as some Salmon which we erroneously thought were undersize and threw back. Still, we were able to have a feed of fresh fish that night.
On the way out, we visited Almonta beach where Fabian and Asher enjoyed a body surf in the biggish waves while Bro and I watched from the sand dune.

From coffin bay NP

Then it was off to Whyalla so we could get Asher on the 6am bus to Adelaide the nest morning.