Lower Eyre Pen cont November 2010

 As we hadn't picked up water for quite a while we decided to head to Elliston C/park so we could  catch up on the washing etc  and have a fish of the jetty with Breeze and PJ, the  Darwin couple we had met at Sheringa Beach.

The little communities we had been to don't have much water at the best of times so we were reluctant to get water there. We do carry  about 290 litres of water and 60 litres of that is so that we can get a load of washing done in the machine if we need to.
 On our arrival at Elliston we had a bit of a look around and then stopped at a picnic spot by the water which had an interesting story board about the wrecks in the local area and some very pretty flowers.

 After getting al my washing done including al the bedding we went down to the jetty to fish for squid but once again I had no luck but Breeze got a large squid. only a few of the other fishermen on the jetty were catching anything, mostly people were out of luck. However after tea we went downand gave it another go but again I didn't catch anything. Initially Lynn stayed back to watch TV but he came down later on to see how we were progressing, by which time it had turned quite cold so he brought down warm jackets.

 The sunset on the bay was magnificent. It looked like there was a fire all across the horizon . It gradually worked it's way across from the west until it filled the gap between the points on either side of the bay.

 Sunset at the jetty

 Lynn took this photo and unfortunately he missed the best of the sunset and  I took a few photos on my phone but they didn't turn out very well.

 One from my phone.

 Although we had only planned to be ther one night we decided that in order to explore the area as recommended by others we needed to stay another night so we booked in and then went for a drive on the Great Ocean drive at Elliston.

 We headed out of town a short distance to pick up the road and take in the route in an anticlockwise direction as recommended by the park manager. Our first stop was at West Beach where we saw some abolone divers unloading their boats. From there the road follows at the back of the beach round to the headland. It is on this part of the road that  we came across the Clifftop Sculptures which were a series of very different artworks. We were also able to see East Islandwhi is a conservation park just off the coast north of Elliston.



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 Surfer wiht board and thongs . 1st clifftop sculpture



2nd sculpture which is very like the Easter Island stuff

This interesting marine sculpture had a very sad tale to tell in the letters under neath which told of an aboriginal person who had been moved to a settlement at Poitn Mcleay  and told of the deaths of some young children and the hardships both the aboriginal and the white person she was writing to  had to endure.

 From the headland to the west of the bay we continued back towards Elliston and then went on the second part of the journey which  goes past the Esplanade and up around  the clifftops to the left of the bay. Finally we drove up to the Lokout near the golf club which gave good views back across the Bay .

 East Island