On to the Eyre Peninsula

On the 2nd of May we left the Flinder's Ranges, stopped off at Port Augusta for groceries, then began the trek around the Eyre Peninsula with our first stop at Whyalla. We wanted to do a tour of the OneSteel factory but unfortunately there had been a fire in a blast furnace (isn't that where the fires are?) and the tours were off. Also, the weather was very cool and windy so we only stayed one night and continued along the coast to Cowles where we took a really interesting tour of an oyster factory and stayed a couple of nights at Arno Bay. Arno had a lovely beach and a great jetty for fishing but we didn't catch much. From here we travelled further south to Tumby Bay and ended up staying 6 days. Tumby is a beautiful town on a little bay with a jetty, crystal blue water and the friendliest people we have found yet. Everyone says g'day to you and even when we were riding our bikes around town people in their cars would wave. We loved it! We stayed at a very small CWA campsite (4 sites) right on the foreshore in the centre of town. Simon and Ashleigh fished everyday, we went to the footy, the craft markets, to church, did school work at the Library and met a lovely couple called John and Barbara who invited us for lunch at their house on mother's day.