Our fill of fish at Starvation Bay

Well we certainly didn't starve at Starvation Bay. Daniel and the kids had great success fishing and we had fresh whiting for dinner for several of the nights we stayed. They also caught a lot of herring, we ate some and kept the smaller ones for bait. Both kids had turns with Daniel fishing off the rocks and fishing from the kayak and they both beamed with excitement when they got to reel in a fish. 

Starvation Bay has lots of rocks and rock pools on one side and we found such wonderful, perfectly formed little shells around the rocky areas. We have decided to fill an glass gin bottle with all these colourful little shells so we spent lots of our time trying to find the most beautiful ones. I laughed every time one of the kids ran up to me with a shell yelling 'this is definitely going in the gin bottle'. 

We went exploring one day (when the wind picked up and our bay was a bit wild) and found a great waves beach. We spent an hilarious few hours trying to outsmart the waves and run just before they touched our toes. We all got very wet and had a heap of fun. Unfortunately our few hours ended in tears as Jackson had buried Emilia's favourite Barbie clothes in the sand (Barbie comes everywhere with us at the moment and she got changed into their bathers at the beach). Jackson then couldn't quite remember where he had buried them. After about half an hour of digging by all of us we gave up, with Jackson promising to get the crying Emilia 'new clothes just the same' when he went to the shop! The disasters of childhood :(

That same day we also found a gorgeous rocky bay with a perfect swimming area. We ended up coming back the next day (which was 39deg) and spent a few hours sitting in the cool, crystal clear water. 

After 5 wonderful nights we decided to move on to what is purported to be an even better beach about 50km down the road (though we had to backtrack 40km to go to a store as we have run out of some staples). The beaches along the south coast are certainly impressing us, with the most amazing ones apparently still to come. 

Playing chicken with the waves - the waves won!!

We had such a fun time running from some of the huge waves.

Even Barbie joined in.

Emilia's photo of Starvation Bay.

The rocky section of Starvation Bay after the storm.

The storm clouds contrasted against the bright blue sky.

Fishing for the big stuff (he had his line broken several times by some big fish but none made it in).

One of the secluded bays we found just near Starvation Bay, it was protected when it was windy back at camp.