Streaky Bay 20/2 - 21/2

We arrived at Streaky Bay, our last stop on the Eyre Peninsula before we head onto our trek across the Nullarbor Plain to reach Western Australia. Our caravan site is in this bay amongst the trees.



We took a drive to see some of the unusual rock formations on the outskirts of the Gawler Ranges. We first went to the Minnipa area where we climbed onto the top of Pildappa Rock. It has natural wave-like formations very similar to 'Wave Rock' in Western Australia.



As the rocks were inland there were a number of flies buzzing around so David decided to try out his Aussie mozzie net. He said that the flies still buzzed around him and annoyed him but they couldn't get onto his face.



Whilst in Minnipa we also visited the Tcharkuldu Rock which has a number of large Granite boulders scattered all over it. There is also a family of kangaroos that live at the rock but unfortunately we didn't get to spot any of them. Here's Jayne smiling quickly to avoid a mouthful of flies.



We drove further on into the Wudinna area. There we climbed onto the Polda Rock. There are often small pools of water on the rock with channels of water running down the sides into a small reservoir at the bottom for town use, but due to the dry weather in this area at the moment it was as dry as a bone.



We visited Murphy's Haystacks which are a group of Granite boulders in what is technically known as Iselberg formations. You can just about spot David below this one.



On our way back to the car David thought that he had finally got rid of the annoying flies. Unfortunatley he just didn't realise that he hadn't seen the back of them yet !