Wednesday, November 14, 2012

COFFIN BAY TO CEDUNA




After our Port Lincoln visit it was onwards to Coffin Bay National Park on the other side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia. After savouring a couple of dozen succulent oysters fresh from the farm we savoured some of the coastal scenery and birdlife in the area.  


First time oyster shucker


Yangie Bay



Point Avoid


Pied Currawong


Sooty Oystercatcher


Red-capped Plover



Pacific Gull



On our way to Ceduna we overnighted at Murphy's Haystacks, a type of granite rock formation known as inselbergs. They were mistaken for giant haystacks by a distant traveller early last century and were named after the properties owner.



Murphy's Haystacks











Ceduna - aboriginal name for "a place to sit down and rest," which we were looking forward to -
was our last stop before crossing the Nullarbor Plain. We walked the 368 metre long and nearly century old jetty in Murat bay. A lone Crested tern was using the railing as a perch to do a spot of fishing.







Crested Tern


Great Egret



Common Greenshank



Cheers and Happy Birding





2 comments:

  1. Hi John,
    How about those "haystacks", we obviously missed them when around Ceduna in 2006
    Russ

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  2. Hi Russ,
    They were about 40km south of Streaky Bay, just off the Flinders Highway, so still a fair way from Ceduna.
    Cheers, John.

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