Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Coffin Bay NP: Yangie Bay

Campground: Yangie Bay Campground
Facilities: Toilets, Picnic Areas, Rainwater Tank (empty when we were there).
Good stuff: Picturesque next to a sheltered bay, 2WD accessible, defined camping spots.
Not so good stuff: Pretty busy so can be hard getting a spot, can’t go swimming in the bay (a bit too shallow and silty).
Price: $10 Vehicle Fee; $10 per night (up to 8 occupants)


We headed to Coffin Bay to try their Australian, and possibly world famous oysters. After setting up camp in the NP at Yangie Bay, the swimmers were on straight away and we headed down to the bay. Walking into the sea our feet were rapidly sinking into silty muddy white gunk… On that note we turned around and decided to go for a walk instead. Not the best spot for swimming… There are several walks from this campground but we just checked out the lookout point and followed the well-marked footpath (wohoo!). One word of warning… watch out for snakes! Liz luckily managed to step over a little one without realising whilst it lazed on a rock in the sun.

Yangie Bay



Our aim the following day was to finally catch a feed. We checked out the lookout at Point Avoid for possible fishing spots and then headed down to Almonta Beach, which were both beautiful (getting rather repetitive...). However the sea was rather rough around the Western side of the NP and the thought of loosing another lure was a no no… 

Point Avoid Lookout


Funky rock ledge


Almonta Beach
Instead we headed in to Coffin Bay to check out a fishing spot at Crinolin Point. This was our spot! Both of us caught some edible-sized Aussie Salmon - 31cm (Kyle) and 34cm (Liz) catches!  A good day’s fishing, and great nights eating – camp fish and chips!!





























Liz's first edible catch that she didn't want to hold for fear of losing it to pelicans...





























1 comment:

  1. Yay, fish to eat (if you can keep the Pelicans away!) Hope they were tasy and lived up to expectation. X

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