Fri, 4th to Mon, 7th March - Arno Bay

Today we headed off fairly early and drove through Port Hughes on the way to Port Pirie, where we stopped on the side of the road for lunch.  We decided to head straight for Arno Bay which is half way down the Eyre Peninsula towards Port Lincoln.  We stayed in Arno Bay for a couple of days during our trip late last year and enjoyed ourselves immensely, so it was on our list of 're-visits'.  We were lucky to be given one of only two sites left, so we booked it until Tuesday morning.  On Tuesday we wanted to head to Port Lincoln to join Mum and Garry (from Adelaide), Jenny (from Streaky Bay) and her two girls Trish and Caryn, Caryn's daughter Lee and her brand new little baby Alexia (they all live in Port Lincoln).  With the arrival of Alexia, we now have five generations of girls in the family!  The five generations were getting together for some very important photographs.

We had a lovely time at Arno Bay with mixed but mostly windy weather.  The Wrecker managed to get onto some crabs but the squid were proving very elusive.  Fishing was a bit ordinary too, although on the Sunday Rick managed to pull up a skate and hammerhead shark in his crab net.  We met a lovely couple with their two young boys who were being home-schooled on their trip by their mother.  Young Jack would spend mornings and afternoons on the jetty with his crab net, but much to his disgust, had to 'attend' school during normal school hours.  Jack talked his Mum into cooking his crabs following a recipe he had heard about using curry and coconut milk.  Once they were cooked, Jack brought us some to taste and they were delicious!  Thanks Jack!

Monday was hot, hot, hot and really windy with major thunderstorms in the afternoon, so we stayed fairly close to the air conditioner, not venturing out much at all.  With the storms came some cooler weather and rain for most of the night.

A short walk to the Arno Bay jetty

Rick's catch