Day 3 – 16th January 2018 – Baroota to Coffin Bay

Leaving Baroota and heading to Coffin Bay today. It is about a 5 hour drive, Col wanted to get there about 3pm….. We made it around 5pm. No stress because we weren’t really in too much of a hurry, we knew where we were going to camp and would have plenty of sunlight to set up in.

When we arrived, we tried to find a swimming beach for a quick dip before dinner.  We took the FJ on the sand to try and find a spot but the tide was way out at the beach near our camp and we quickly drove around Coffin Bay trying to find somewhere else. We ended up swimming somewhere very shallow with smelly mud haha. Not adding that one to our top 10 beach list! The dip cooled us off and cleaned off some of the dirt from Baroota so our objective was achieved. It was 35 degrees Celsius, so a little warm today. 

We are staying on a property waiting to be developed which belongs to my Dad (thanks Pop), so a free private camp in walking distance to a beach and a pub, nice. We came here with our camping crew in September 2016 (love you guys and I am not even drunk).  You can also pay $5 to the Coffin Bay caravan park to use their shower facilities, although we set up the double shower/toilet tent behind the van last night for our showers. We have a hot water shower on the outside of the van. We put a strong plastic container down that we stand in, and a foam square tile with holes in it that you can step onto to dry off (thanks Dee, worked beautifully). 

I downloaded Audible for the long drives so I can listen to a book instead of music. I highly recommend it. Started to feel a bit sleepy at the 2 hour mark and was counting the kilometers listening to music. I switched to the book for the last half of the drive and was alert and didn’t notice the time or the kilometers. Could have kept driving. Needs to be a good book I guess! You can preview the narrator before you purchase and I would highly recommend this, as some of the voices would drive me crazy to listen to. You also need to download the book ahead of time, so be prepared. The great thing is you have access to a book store anywhere you have internet, they are way cheaper than paperbacks, easier to travel with as they don’t take up room and you can listen to your favourite books while driving. Winner. I also downloaded the Kindle app on my laptop too. I think col was wondering why he lost his UHF radio buddy for a while there, as I was a little slow to respond!

Thinking I might start an on-line book club if anyone is interested in reading and discussing each month – let me know.  I am currently reading ‘Silent Child’ by Sarah A. Denzil.

We had a small campfire and looked at the stars again last night, no moon. Saw a couple of shooting stars so feeling lucky. Was feeling lucky even before the shooting stars to be honest!