After getting rather inebriated in the Barossa Wine Valley we drove Geoff the van up from Adelaide to Port Augusta and down to Cowell, where we stopped at Turners Oyster farm to taste some oysters. The Eyre Peninsula is famous for its great sea food- oysters, lobster, snapper, Australian salmon, tuna…you name it we’ve eaten it. If you’re passing throug Cowell and you like Oysters you should pop in and give them a taste.
Lisa shucked some oysters in front of us and we had the opportunity to eat them natural with a bit of lemon. We had a quick tour of the oyster farm where we were shown how they sort through the oysters to get the right size.
It was then onto Elliston and over to Coodlie Park just before Venus Bay and Port Kenny. It’s incredible when you drive along this stretch of South Australia how you can travel for miles and miles of scrub and bush without seeing a single vehicle.
We had a great time at Coodlie Park- as someone rightly said, “It’s like Hotel California, you can check in anytime you like but you can never leave!” There were many nights spent drinking around a camp fire, chatting to other travellers and eating feasts cooked up by the friendly staff who operate the Nullarbor Traveller tour. The facilities there include camping facilities and hostel accommmodation, plus computers with internet access.
If you’re looking to have a bit of an adventure across the Nullarbor, do the Nullarbor Traveller tour to go swimming with sea lions in Baird Bay, as well as shark cage diving and swimming with tuna, something well worth doing!
The sea lions are really playful and will come right up to you. We were all given wetsuits to help keep us warm in the cold water and hopped aboard the boat to go in search of the sea lions. We anchored up in a pool off Baird Bay where the sea lions were chilling out on rocks and playing in the water. Snorkelling with sea lions is amazing- they look you right in the eyes and will copy your movements. If you roll over or dive they’ll mimic you and try to play. Some will even touch you on the nose and cuddle you!
We would recommend swimming with the sea lions in the wild to anyone! After the sea lions we swam with a school of dolphins, a great day! The difference with this is they are wild and you don’t feel like you’re swimming with something in captivity that’s beeing forced to entertain you. These animals are wild but still naturally curious and very approachable.
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