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.
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| First time oyster shucker |
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| Yangie Bay |
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| Point Avoid |
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| Pied Currawong |
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| Sooty Oystercatcher |
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| Red-capped Plover |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Crested Tern |
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| Great Egret |
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| Common Greenshank |
Cheers and Happy Birding
Hi John,
ReplyDeleteHow about those "haystacks", we obviously missed them when around Ceduna in 2006
Russ
Hi Russ,
ReplyDeleteThey were about 40km south of Streaky Bay, just off the Flinders Highway, so still a fair way from Ceduna.
Cheers, John.