2017-12-15 Day 225 Fri

I had forgotten to skip last night before my shower so I went out onto the dewy grass and did my 500 skips. Much harder than the other day. Lets hope I can maintain some routine with it for a few months.

We were planning on going back the way we had come even though there was no “private property” sign or lock. A car arrived from our direction so I jumped out to ask if we could pass through? An emphatic 'yes!' and 5 mins of directions on which turns to take. All I think I got was 4^th turn and it’ll be dirt road.

So we continued on. A fantastic place, quiet with lots of birdlife and cattle. (like this pair of burrowing owls). Several power poles had been burnt from a short across the insulator connecting the wire to the pole , so they have burned down from the top.

John had to open about 20 gates but it was worth it (says the driver). We got to a very sandy patch which EC coped with admirably but the next section was a bit sketchy so put her in 4 wheel drive. We did get through OK but in places it was touch and go. We still had 65psi in the tyres so were not unduly worried. 4 Hrs for 36 fantastic km’s Our best drive in quite a while.

Back onto the main road where we found a nice little lagoon for lunch. Continued on down the coast and came to the biggest wind farm we had come across about 300 wind mills… they just went on and on.

Arrived at the beach and as the map indicated the beach is used for a road. So we drove up the beach a way till we had the beach to ourselves and parked up above the high tide mark near the dunes.

A strange beach; we had trouble working out where the high tide line was because although we could see it half way up the beach the whole beach was wet.

The wind was strong and dry sand was blowing along the beach. Not so nice to be out in it.