This week will mark 12 weeks since we moved into our caravan, parked up at Narrabeen Caravan Park. We have covered more than 4000km with the van when you add up the distance between each of our camps (actual km on the car quite a bit higher thanks to lots of day exploring!). We have stayed at more than 30 different locations along the way and our average cost for accomodation throughout SA is sitting at around $25 per night – not bad! Over the course of the last two months in SA, we have been blessed with the flexibility to have some relatively short driving days, making only small hops between some amazing locations. I suspect that our km on the car and distance we travel between locations will increase significantly once we hit WA!

After leaving Streaky Bay, we made a quick stop at Perlubie Beach. We hadn’t actually planned on staying here but the kids were super excited by another opportunity to camp on the beach so we let the air in the tyres down and set off down the beach to find ourselves a spot. A lot of the photos people may show of Perlubie will give the feeling you are by yourself in a remote location, miles away from anywhere.

I suspect it’s only on a rare occurrence you have this place to yourself. There would have been around 40 vans parked up along the beach and it’s only a short 20 minute drive to Streaky Bay to get any supplies as needed so perhaps not as remote as you could be made to believe 🙂

Very high tides (over 2m) and our desire to keep moving, we only spent one night at Perlubie and the next day set off for Point Brown in search of some surf. We didn’t find any surf, but we did find yet another cool set of bays and cliffs to hang out for a night (plus another beach for K to find yet more shells).

Heading 160km north of Point Brown, we set ourselves up at camp number 30 – Point Sinclair, home to the well know surf breaks off Cactus Beach and designated a National surfing reserve. Set up as a traditional surfing camp site, the sites are spread amongst the dunes with some centralised cleared areas for the outdoor camp ‘kitchen’ (a sink), fire pit area, toilet and of course, the outdoor cold shower! It’s a super cool set up and I can see how the area has become an iconic destination for surfers. Finally a chance for Andy to get out the surf board. Around the corner from the camp site, we explored the jetty area where the kids had fun jumping in the water and I found my inner fisher-woman…

Once again, we are totally blown away by the landscape. I am not sure I have ever seen a part of coastline where you can see the change from yellow sand dunes to cliffs then on to white expansive dunes… just insane.

Back in the land of phone reception, we are now back in Ceduna to re-stock and re-group with our friends who are waiting for their car to be fixed before we all set off across the mighty Nullarbor. Next big stop… WA!