Ceduna and its Substance Abuse Laws!

McKenzie ruins at Denial Bay outside Ceduna.

We dragged ourselves away from Streaky Bay and headed to Ceduna this morning. It was really quite sad leaving SB as we’ve both really enjoyed it and could have stayed another month I reckon. New neighbours-Colin and Maggie moved in beside us a few days ago, and they have been great. Colin is a retired tug boat captain and really was a good help to Russell with the boat and fishing info. They’ve been coming to Streaky for a few years and stay for 10 weeks when they do.

Devi had a bad last day. She must have eaten some off razor fish and spent a lot of time throwing them back up. Just when that had settled down, she got stung by a bee. She loves to catch flies and picked the wrong insect this time-the bee bit her inside her mouth, then again on her front foot as she swatted it our of her mouth. Lucky Maggie was there and had seen the same happen to a foxy a couple of years ago. They called a vet who said to give the dog 1/8th of a Panadol. We did the same for Devi and she stopped scratching and gnawing at herself.

The trip to Ceduna was awful with lots of wind and very slow caravans making their way here or on. The park we chose through a forum I read is wonderful though. It’s small and friendly and we have our own lovely en suite for a week. Apparently there are plenty of crabs right now, so we’ll try our luck once again. Tonight, we are going to a BBQ the park is putting on-we take our own everything, but they supply a cook so we can sit and talk to the other people here. It’ll be good, because the park is 55 acres with only 45 sites and we are quite spread out.

After we’d settled in today, we headed to the pub for a quick counter lunch. Who should be there but Maggie and Colin. They’d decided it was too windy to fish, so had come over to shop and fill the long range tanks with cheaper fuel! It was good to see them one more time. After we left them, we went to buy a cask of wine only to find we couldn’t buy it before 4pm! Then when we tried to buy two (it was a really good special) were only able to buy one. Apparently though, we could have gone back 10 or 15 minutes later, but who could be bothered!