Thierings on Tour

Scarly woke up surprised to see her spider web face stickers still on her face, but then she refused to take them off, so spider girl it was for the day… the girls set off creating “fashion” outfits and had a nice play with their friend Maisy. 

Then it was off onto the next adventure of Lincoln National Park. The weather forecast was finally looking good for the day and there was even a drop in this hideous cold wind. 

The road into the park was very up and down (vertically undulating?) whatever the word is! We had earmarked a couple of spots as a potential camping stop for the night and once we got to Fisherman’s Point campground we knew that was the one, we didn’t even bother looking at the next campground. Then Chris and I had a massive case of dejavu and upon checking our old blog it turned out that this is the exact same campsite we had stayed at 11 years ago, possibly even very close to the current site judging by old photos…

We quickly set up and headed off to explore the park further while the weather was finally favourable. I’d seen so many pictures of Memory Cove recently and I was excited to check it out, but once we started heading out there I saw a note on the National park map that there is a locked gate and the key has to be collected from Port Lincoln visitors centre. I was so sad I hadn’t seen this before and even called them to see if there was any way around it, but alas no.

So we headed to a different spot and had lunch at September beach, I finally got to enjoy my smoked mackerel in a salad – delish! It was a lovely sheltered beach with so many cool Orca-coloured shells.

From there we headed to Donnington Lookout with a great view of the ocean and overlooking a sea lion colony island. It’s too hard to see in the photos, but with our binos we saw about 10 different sea lions sunbathing on the rocks.

We had seen Engine Point along our drive and decided to make the most of the warm weather at this shallow beach. Finally we got to kick off the jumpers & jeans and enjoy a swim in the water. It was pretty chilly, but none of us really cared as we have missed the sun! 

The girls collected more shells and warmed up on the rocks, Chris and I enjoyed a beer and some peace in the shallow water. It was such a fabulous afternoon and a brilliant reset for everyone!

Back at camp we made tacos and got a fire going. With the wind gone the flies came out in force and we had to cover everything up as we tried to eat. The girls loved the idea of tacos with a view 🙂

While I was putting Scarly to bed Chris went out for a fish as we had read on our old blog that this is where he caught two squid. Sure enough he came back with a squid, a beautiful translucent thing and the big girls loved seeing it in the bucket. It wasn’t really big enough for the effort to cook up as a snack for everyone so Chris decided to let it go in the end.

The stars were awesome, the fire was warm and cost and it was a lovely relaxing way to finish an already brilliant day. Lincoln NP, you did it again!

Kms travelled – 88