Day 4 Hello Stranger

Had a lovely sleep in then making good use of our powered site, kick started the day with a hot shower & a  cooked breaky.  By mid morning we were on our way and bumping into the guy we met at Brown’s Beach again! (small world isn’t it?) After a quick chat we were on our way greeted by a local kangaroo hopping across the main street of Pennishaw, and a tamar wallaby further up the highway near Island Beach.

We headed towards American River to check out the camping facilities- tiny little fishing village & holiday villa’s mainly with a dump point for caravans ( dad was happy!)  Back on the road up to Kingscote, with more showers, then sunshine, then showers!  Arrived in Kingscote for lunch and almost got swept away!!  Was about as windy as it was at Cape Willoughby, we had a quick wander around the local shops, got a hot lunch & a few supplies, just in time to be hit with another hail storm as we sat in Doreen eating our lunch, admiring the yarn bombed mermaid across the street. Then on to explore some of the town & historic Reeves Point. 

After lunch we headed on up to Emu Bay to check out the camping grounds,  pretty good with modern playground, BBQ, long drop toilets (but no showers) great big grassed area on the foreshore but no camping on that. The downside was that the cap sites were up the hill on a very open rocky area that looked like a car park… too bad if you needed the loo in the middle of the night, it would have been a few hundred meters away. They also had what looked like old powered sites on a grassed area behind a shack, but no way of getting in to use them! We decided Brown’s Beach was the better of the two.

Seems it was the day for wildlife, on the way back down from Emu Bay we spotted a stray chicken grazing on the side of the road.  On to Pure Island Sheep Dairy, had a look around at the sheep and turkeys outside the dairy and chat to the lady at the “dairy door”& while tasting 4 of their cheeses learnt about the breed of sheep they use & how much milk they get from the various breeds ( dad was more into this than I was obviously lol) we made a purchase of 2 cheeses which were a great little treat for “foursies”.  Island Pure Sheep Dairy

Pushing on we took the south coast route, down to seal bay to see if we could spot any… unfortunately it was pretty well screened off by vegetation, fencing and a bloody great info centre & gift shop. We decided that it was a bit too expensive to do the tour & had heard there were other places we could go to spot seals & sea lions for free, so we were on the road once more to end up in our final destination for the day- Vivonne Bay.  Bypassing the turn off into town we took a dirt track down towards the caravan park & jetty but instead were rewarded with a lovely little free beach side camping spot for the night.