Coffin Bay to Streaky Bay

20th to 27th March
Whilst still on the Coast we dove into the local produce, with a long seafood lunch at Coffin Bay, including the iconic oysters, the views over the oyster leases were a great backdrop.

Coffin Bay lunch

We camped in the national park, bayside out of the wind, though we did a few walks beach side... plenty of breeze and white sand there.

Whilst Coffin Bay is a very small village, with only a couple  of streets, it’stheiroysters that put them on the  map.
The water and food source in the bay is ideal for quickly growing oysters, though they now farm the pacific oyster rather than the local oyster whose stock were depleted in years gone by.

Streaky Bay Jetty 

As a contrast Streaky Bay was a bigger village, very neat and plenty of good food and wine. Kevin tried fishing for squid with some locals, but no luck, so we settled for seafood in the pub.

Powerhouse museum 

The town has an impressive powerhouse museum with over 460 working engines.... local enthusiasts even started the old chaff cutters, motors and water pumps up for us.

We were lucky enough to be invited to a BBQ with some locals we met at Speed Week, a fun night and great to make new friends in interesting places.