The day started out clear but still a bit windy. As I had to do a work ZOOM meeting at 1145 I had to check to see if the camp Wi-Fi was adequate as Trev and I had no phone reception.

Not unexpectedly the Wi-Fi was no good. Everyone was planning to do their own thing a bit today as my day was broken up with the work issue. We decided to head into town to locate a Wi-Fi hotspot so I could do the meeting. Klaus and Beryl were doing one of the loop drives and the others were planning to go in to look at the town.

Trev and I drove in to town and stopped at Elliot’s bakery and café to ask re Wi-Fi – they were extremely helpful – they did not have Wi-Fi but directed us to the other café Bay Funktion that did. We thanked them and said we would return to buy come  coffee a etc later.

The staff at Bay Funktion café were also great – when we explained what we needed they were more than happy to let us use their Wi-Fi and gave us the password. We bought coffee and sat down and I tested the connection etc – all worked fine thankfully so everything was set for the 1145 meeting.

The café was very unusual with several rooms decorated in different themes…. And a clear message in the toilet about a revolutionary new installation!!!!

As we had plenty of time we went to IGA to do some groceries and met Rose and Kerry on the way – who had been doing some retail therapy! Gordie had gone back to camp with Dave to pick up his wetsuit so he could go for a surf at Granites after lunch if it was OK conditions…

After getting the groceries Trev dropped me back at the café to get set up for the meeting and the others came in for lunch. Beryl and Klaus still hadn’t returned from their drive. I set up in the blue room and was all ready to go when 5 mins before the meeting their internet dropped out!!! I raced in to borrow Rosie’s phone to ring my manager as I had no reception… and then borrowed Gordies phone to see if I could hotspot from his phone…. And amazingly after a quick prayer it worked and I got on to the meeting.

The meeting lasted quite a while and the others left after eating lunch to go back to the shops… Trev arrived back from camp, my meeting finished and I returned the phones to the others….glad that was over!!

Trev and I then had lunch in the Bay Funktion café – delicious homemade sausage rolls with a mango chutney – then left to go out and do a bit of exploring – just as Beryl and Klaus arrived – they went in for lunch and were doing groceries after….

The Westall Loop covered Tractor Beach, High Cliff, The Granites and Smooth Pool ending up at Yanerbie Beach. As there was potential surf at Granites plus places to swim along the way we decided to drive the loop,

Tractor Beach was obviously named….

At High Cliff the spectacular headland and steep cliff faces dropped down to a beautiful white sanded beach – a bench seat right on the edge of the cliff was positioned to capture the full view – a bit precariously!

Arriving at the Granites the surf was small and blown out – the wind was strong and so not really inviting for a swim – a pretty location nevertheless…

Smooth Pools was on the lower headland which was full of rocky granite boulders and many rockpools that you could potentially have a dip in but again a howling wind made outside an uncomfortable place to be…

We went on to Yanerbie beach for a quick look and then stopped at the sand dunes behind to climb up to the top for a spectacular view of the massive sand dunes – despite the wind it was beautiful – South Australia not only has lots of JETTIES – it has sand dunes everywhere along the coast!

As we were leaving the dunes we heard Gordie on the CB – they had been to Granites but no surf and so were heading back to camp – we drove out of the sandhills carpark, and they passed by – we all then drove home.

The caretaker at the caravan park had mentioned that 2 days ago there had been a 4 metre Great With shark sighted swimming in the shallow channel between the small island directly out in front of the caravan park. The channel is so shallow that you can walk to the island at low tide (only a short distance) and people snorkel around the island – you would never imagine such a big shark coming in that far into the bay…

Trev had seen dolphins there earlier and so we went down for an afternoon beach walk hoping to see some marine wildlife… but only saw human and bird life much to everyone’s disappointment…

The water was crystal clear and the wind had started to drop finally!

Happy hour together at our place followed by dinner and a somewhat early night as we were planning to leave early to arrive at our next destination Cactus Beach as early as possible. You could not book campsites at the campground there so we hoped to get their early to secure 4 sites as it was a Friday leading into the weekend and possibly may have been busy…..