Well today dawned sunny with virtually no wind so I took a walk on the beach below our camp. The actual camp was behind the dunes and well above the beach. It was nice to feel sand and waters between my toes and to see the birds around the beach. The beach here is backed by low cliffs and has sand very much like the sand that we are used to in WA. Then we drove off through the farming country which is pretty greens and yellows, but mainly greens, at the moment. We were informed later that this is a marginal farming area do the farms are quite large and that this will be a good year. One other comment about the farms, they are virtually treeless which I understand is not good from a soil erosion point of view and a few other factors such as salinity.
We stopped for lunch at yet another pretty town. It is very noticeable on this coast of this peninsula that the scenery is beautiful and that the town's have gone to some trouble to match their surroundings in order to attract tourists. The coastline is full of wide bays, blue water as far as the eye can see, and on the land side rolling green hills. The beach are long sweeping beaches with the aforementioned white sand.
We are camped tonight on another low hill next to the ocean and have the whole place to ourselves. We have also been treated to dolphins swimming just off shore and a crop dusting plane doing the fields around us and flying over us almost close enough to touch. Then to top off a nice day a couple of fishermen came past, confirmed that were not Victorians and gave us three nice king george whiting which I duly filleted, Elaine duly cooked and we duly ate.
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