Sleepy seaside Elliston

This morning as we were hitching the BT we noticed a clunky, grating noise from the back right wheel of the Landcruiser. As we still had to cover several hundred km’s before the next car service at Port Lincoln, we made the decision to drive into Streaky Bay Auto to see if a mechanic could assess. They were extremely helpful and asked Sippy to leave the car with them for a couple of hours. Fortunately it turned out to be a few rocks caught up in the drum, so after 2 hours of work (and $120 later) they had it fixed and we were on our way.

40km further south along the Flinders Highway we stopped in to walk around Murphy’s Haystacks. These ancient wind-worn rock formations date back 100,000 years. After a few pics we were back on the road and headed for Venus Bay, and Talia and Woolshed Caves. We enjoyed seeing the latter cave and again marveled at the rugged coastline, Unfortunately we couldn’t see Talia Cave due to road closures. We arrived in Elliston late in the afternoon and took a walk up to the beach and along the headland, before having another feed of King George whiting – cooked perfectly by Sippy on the BBQ.

The next morning was cool and drizzly, and not feeling great due to a cold picked up a few days earlier, we had a lazy, lie-in morning and caught up on posts and blogs. As the sun came out we walked over to the Elliston bakery at lunchtime for a great country beef & mushroom pie and some home-made biscuits later in the afternoon completed the Great Ocean Drive and admired the sculptures around the headland.