Today started out with a starfish hunt, I realise that they are not aggressive or dangerous, but they are difficult to find. It was low tide so I walked all the way out on the tidal flats in a great big circular patern, about a 3 km walk. Guess what I found, 1 small starfish, 1 large shell and a few smaller shells. There were lots of shell to pick up but the whole area seemed almost devoid of life. Probably I am not a good looker, maybe I walk too fast and am just attuned to seeing what is there. Oh well I will just have to keep practising. We had breakfast, tidied up, did our jobs and took off at about 11am intending to stop about 100km down the road. 
On the way out we saw some people topping up their water tanks, do we stopped to do the same. The water tap was outside the Apache Gas plant and is provided by Apache. The deal is don't wash your car or van, just fill your tanks and put a donation in the Flying Doctor box next to the tap. Apache promise to match the donations dollar for dollar and there is a note next to the tap saying that $4670 has been donated so far and that the Flying Docter will be getting a cheque for $9340. Well done Apache and campers! 
Off we went, at the first spot on our list Elaine couldn't find a suitable site, so off we went again. The next 2 spots had no shade and no other vans, the 3rd spot had no shade and 1 van, so we kept going. We have finished up alongside the Ashburton River, strangely enough because this is a nice spot, near Onslow. The river is quite wide here, lots of trees on the banks and we have seen a couple ducks swimming along, but the water is muddy in colour.