17/03/2004 - Stage 1, Day 29, Page 2 of 4 - Port Lincoln to Whaler's Way, SA
As it turned out, we ended up with more fish than we even caught that day. Bob had caught more than he could eat. Stacks more in fact. In addition, I think he'd caught well in excess of the legal limit! Nevertheless, he gave us four of his good sized salmon to take with us - his excuse was that it'd save him having to clean them. We gave one of them away to another fisherman at the wharf (he didn't have anything to show for his afternoon's efforts). All in all, we ended the day with 6 salmon and a tommy ruff to take home.
Now there's only so much a koala can bear. Bradley's not much into salmon (the flavor is too strong for him) and I certainly wasn't going to eat 6 big salmon for dinner (nor could I fit them in the esky beside Bradley's Cooper's Draught!). So we headed back to the caravan park and gave five of them to the first unsuspecting people we came across, who planned to be a lovely old couple who planned to smoke them. Having unloaded the bulk of our booty, we settled in to camp and cooked up a Sri Lankan fish curry with rice and salad for dinner.
Sunrise the next morning (11/3/2004) heralded the start of a very long and busy day. Needless to say, we lounged around in the morning to make sure we'd be thoroughly late home from our planned excursion to a place called Whalers' Way. We'd seen post cards for sale with pictures of Whalers' Way and they were always about the prettiest pictures on the post card rack - clearly a place we needed to see first hand!
Whalers' Way is at the very bottom of the Eyre Peninsula and includes Cape Carnot and Cape Wiles (for those keen to check the map). The place is locked and it cost us $25 to get the key for a day visit there (in hind sight, it was money very well spent). Below is a map of the area - note that for some reason, north is facing down the page which is totally opposed to standard mapping practice.
