Showing posts with label national park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national park. Show all posts

Monday, April 3, 2017

Taking the scenic route

We set of yesterday to try and find cockles down at the Canunda National Park. Before we even left home it may have been obvious that we should have just stayed home.

While not much seemed like it was going right, it all ended well in the end. We didn't find cockles, there was a lot of weed on the beach and the sea was an awful brown colour because of it.

Summer was beside herself and crying while we drove along. Something has spooked her about driving on the beach. Brett didn't help matters when he mentioned he didn't want to get stuck because the car would end up in the ocean. Good move Brett....not! She wailed a little louder.

On the way out of the national park, we stopped at the big sandhill. It's no so big as it used to be when I was a kid. I wish the council had never excavated most of the sand away for use somewhere else. What were they thinking?! It's always been a legendary local landmark. Bloody crazy.

We took the scenic route home and come across a patch of belladonna lillies. Summer had stopped crying, but still wouldn't get out of the car. 

Belladonna lillies are also known as Easter lillies, as they flower at this time of year. There were also what looked like freesias and jonquils coming up too, so I will be back again to have a look.

It is common where an old homestead once was, to find remnants of the home garden still coming up every year. Not far from here, there is another site where we've dug up wild garlic. There's a fig tree there too, but I would never walk through the long grass to get to them in a fit. I don't fancy coming across a big arse brown snake!




















Monday, January 13, 2014

Four wheel driving in the Canunda National Park

My place in time #69 -  a photo from the coast.
My place in time # 87 - a car number plate.

My place in time is a local area history project set by Kell at Blackcurrant Photography

The day before Boggy went back to work after the christmas/new years break we went for a four wheel drive through the Canunda National Park to Carpenter Rocks. 

We had a few stops along the way before dropping into the Tavern for a drink and driving back on the bitumen, through Tantanoola.

It really is a spectacular place to explore. 


Some natives we scare from the track not long after we turn off, we did see a
snake too, but he was too quick to pose for a photo. 

It took us around three hours to get Carpenter Rocks with a few stops 


We stop off at Whale Rock and walk to the beach



Whale Rock. Can you see it?



Our next stop is Number 2 rocks, here we are on top of the cliffs

and on the beach

The small bay is protected by reef, some spectacular wave crashing

The road gets a bit lumpier towards Carpenter Rocks

Wrecked in 1997 at Red Rock Bay, Carpenter Rocks. Not. going. anywhere.

The Landy, we only seasonally register it. Boggy uses it to tow the boat, which he sold last week. He's on the look out for a smaller dinghy.


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