Port Lincoln

 Twilight @ Lincoln Cove

Port Lincoln ***** The seafood and aquaculture capital of SA. It’s the first considered ‘big’ city we arrive from Madura. With Coles supermarket! And a couple of Chinese restaurant. Even Vodafone has reception here after so long! 

 With the recommendation from the visitor centre, we eagerly went to Ming Inn Chinese restaurant for our dinner. It’s Chinese New Year and we wanted to eat some Chinese food desperately. Wrong decision, half roast duck $17 and fried rice $8, tasteless! Maybe we should just wait till Adelaide. . .

 

Port Lincoln is famous for the tour packages like Swim with Tuna (even hand feed them) and cage diving with great white Sharks! Swimming with great white sounds interesting, but Peter said we musn’t try, else we’ll scared ourselves out when we go diving at Great Barrier Reef! Okay okay, forget the sharks then. So just some peaceful fishing off the town’s jetty for the whole morning. Got one tommy ruff herring. That’s it?

 Our campsite at Port Lincoln Tourist Park

We stayed at Port Lincoln Tourist Park for one night. Unpowered site costs us $23 per night with the same basic facility, camp kitchen, shower and laundry. One night stay eventually extended to three nights cause Peter got his first cheap fishing rod for $39 at a shop. And the caravan park we stayed has free sausage sizzle for that weekend. Also, the jetty off the caravan park is famous for catching squids. So more fishing!

 

Finally on the third day of fishing, Peter got his first catch from the rod, tommy ruffs again! After some time, he got a garfish (long fish with spear like mouth). When we were almost finish for the day, a couple nearby caught three calamari squids. So we quickly throw in our squid jig! YES!!! At last, we manage to catch a squid, a BIG one! That's the garfish he's holding up there~

Slimy squidddddd

Met Tino, the german backpacker who actually did the whole round of OZ! Well done, hopefully we can do the same =)