Drove into Port Lincoln as John wanted an underwater camera for his cage shark diving the next day. We also wanted to find the shortest and most straightforward way into town as we had gotten lost getting back to the farm. There are some lovely views as we drive down the hill overlooking the ocean that we have included. During our trek home the GPS took us a different way where we stumbled across the remains of the recent fire of 23 December, quite a large area was burnt and 12 properties were lost. Surprisingly the fire was close to town. A bit ghoulish but John took some photos and video. Also discovered another dam on the property near one of the farm owners homes, this one is bigger than the other two and sheep graze the edge.
Today (Sunday) is the big shark cage diving day. We left the farm at 6.00am as John had to be at the marina in Port Lincoln at 6.30am and it is a good 25 minutes drive away. Even so early it is hot, predicting 43 degrees today! After dropping John off I decided to go into town and do some sightseeing and go for a swim. Unfortunately I don’t have the camera (John has it) so couldn’t take photos. I was one of the first ones to park at the town jetty and foreshore. Being Sunday everywhere is closed of course. Coco and I went for a long walk along the foreshore and popped into Coles. Coles is open from 6.00am to 9.00pm and Woollies 7.00am to 10.00pm – how good it that! By this time it is really starting to get too warm to walk much further so its time for a swim. The jetty (in fact most in SA so far) have a swimming area about 1/2 way along the length. We thought it was to keep the sharks out and this is partly true, but it mainly is because the water is so shallow and you have to wade out so far to get water above your knees that by having these platforms it makes it easier to enter deeper water. Being so warm there were heaps of people on the jetty and swimming. But it was so nice and cool once in. Didn’t want to get out. By this time Wendy’s was open and I had decided I really wanted a milkshake – haven’t had one for ages and I had to wait ages for them to open. So I ordered a vanilla with malt. Decided to sit on the lawn by the waters edge and read by book, well as usual I was trying to carry too much stuff and dropped my hardly touched milkshake onto the footpath. Urggh, so disappointing as I was really really going to enjoy it, but all not lost as an off leash dog thought it was lovely and lapped it all up – lucky dog. Hung around a bit longer then drove back to the farm. And it was hot – about 5 degrees warmer than by the water. It did get to 43 in town and I reckon it was 48 at least at the farm. I have never experienced heat quite like it, it is suffocating and like walking into an oven – horrible. Hibernated in the van in the a/c until it was time to pick up John.
OK, John here, so I have to do an entry on my dive with the GREAT WHITE! well that might take a while to compile so mean time here is a video. A bit long 8 min so be patient :-)
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