A Cape Town Sandy Bay tagged image from photographer – spelio as published on Flickr.
Panorama of bay we camped beside before the storm
Image by spelio
Coffin Bay National Park. South Australia on Eyre Peninsular
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Coffin Bay National Park. South Australia on Eyre Peninsular
see Smoky log book for 2002, Eclipse Trip.. 293700km
We noticed all the small boats coming in to the small sheltered bay to anchor in the evening.
This was the days before a weather App so we just enjoyed the sight as they gathered.
We set up camp away from the edge of the cliff and the small breeze rising up over the edge. A pleasant sunset and a walk around the dunes and we settled in for a calm evening.
At around midnight the breeze strengthened and the canvas started to flap.
After an hour of listening to the growing noise of the tent, and me going out into the wind blown sand to tie down the awning and check the pegs we settled down.
Soon we awoke again to sand blowing in our faces and an increasing draft rising through the mattress. I had earlier closed the trailer tailgate to stop the wind blowing straight up thru the mattress and fluffing up the doona!
We decided it was time to pack up and get out of here before the tent was destroyed.
We managed to collapse the tent and wrap the cover over it held down by ropes to stop it taking off.
We mostly leave the car connected to the trailer, so it was just a matter of loading all the boxes into the space under the bed, stowing the poles and heading off.
As we drove up the sandy track through the dunes, the wind blew sand along the track with us from behind, it looked like something from "Star Wars" or "The Dune".
At least the engine snorkel was facing down wind!
We returned to a previous night’s camp ground, and not too quietly after 2am, we idled in as only a 60 Series Diesel can do!
The tent pegs went in, we shook some sand off the bed and retired until late that morning.
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