Tumby Bay - Colton Bakery

We stayed a night at the Tumby Bay RV park opposite the cemetery and next to the Golf Club, well worth the $7.50 cost as they provided a drinking water tap to allow us to refill our caravan tanks. Thanks Tumby Bay !

With the weather becoming extremely windy, cold and at this stage threatening rain we took a detour into Louth Bay to see if it had changed … it hadn’t appeared to though the ‘Old Boy’ who used to sell smoked fish and had a great personal museum wasn’t around though it’s been a few years since our last visit, hopefully he’s still with us. 

We decided to stop in Port Lincoln, and not being fans of caravan parks because we are self contained, power, water etc, we found an excellent place at John’s Caravan Repairs, a huge block with ample parking and many caravans that appeared to be there in storage, I was amazed at the number of sheds and what the cost would have been, (I neglected to take a photo) but at $5 per van per night he wasn’t making a fortune from travellers. 

We thought about staying an extra night but the weather convinced us to leave as we would have just been van trapped. 

So today it’s just been a drive up the western coast of the Eyre Peninsular, stopping at Coffin Bay, Elliston and driving the coastal route which has spectacular views and some quirky artwork along the road. 

We drove on with the wind hitting us in gusty blows, at some times it was side on, other times head on. Not much traffic about so that was a good thing. We chose to stop at Colton Bakery, a small farm bakery that works on the Honour system for payment, we both bought some bread and sticky buns which are fresh and yummy. 

Stopped for the night with the wind and rain coming down at Murphys Haystacks, it’s a donation camp beside the very interesting Natural Large Stone formations named Murphys Haystacks, Been here before but if the weather eases in the morning we will take a walk up around them.

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