Gavs and Marion Bay

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

We headed to the  park with Bowy, Adrianna and James to meet Gav, Lynda and the boys.  We enjoyed a lovely picnic and there was plenty of room to play cricket and Frisbee. 

Afterwards we went to Gavins house and sat around the pool catching up while the younger boys enjoyed a swim. After a huge day Kai and Lachlan were exhausted and had a fantastic sleep.

 

The next day we headed to Bowy’s beach shack at Marion Bay which Bowy had kindly let us stay at for four nights.  An amazing fact about the Yorke Peninsula is that there are a total of 85 shipwrecks scattered around its coastline, many due to extreme weather conditions and low lying reefs around the peninsula.

The boys at the Ethel ship wreck

 

Having the use of an oven was a godsend as it gave us an opportunity to make some of Brett's famous beef jerky.

 

During the days we visited some of the shipwrecks, a lighthouse some 80 meters above the ocean below and swam at the picturesque Pondalowie Bay.  The kids enjoyed diving off the pontoon and running flat stick down the steep dunes.

 

 

 As we had a big screen tv we all had a movie night and watched The Man From Snowy River.  The kids were excited to see "Craig's Hut" and other icons of the Victorian High Country that we'd visited in the weeks prior.