Hey Guys!We’ve taken some other travellers advice and decided to explore the Eyre peninsula before going to Adelaide. So we’ve come down the left hand side first dropping into Smokey Bay and Streaky bay. Both extremely gorgeous bays, not so lucky with the weather here as its a bit overcast and cool but still really lovely. We are not staying along the western coast of the Eyre Peninsula because we just had to decide to stay somewhere so down the bottom made sense.WA might have turned it on for the beaches but SA is absolutely smashing out of the park for wildlife. We drove out to the Point Labatt Sea Lion Colony which is basically a long drive out to a platform on the edge of a cliff face where you get to look down over a natural pod of sea lions. On the drive out there it was cold, drizzling and pretty windy. The whole way out there we saw the temperature in the car drop the further out we went and we kept saying it was probably going to be a huge waste of time because surely the sea lions wouldn’t be there in this weather. ACTUALLY THEY WERE! All sitting about or laying on the beach in all their glory. There was some babies to see and they were all just down there having the best time relaxing. We on the other hand, lasted about 1 minute out in the cold before running back into the car, drenched with rain and teeth chattering from the cold. It was worth it to see the sea lions but it would have been magnificent on a sunny day.We realised after getting to Coffin Bay that we probably should have stayed in Port Lincoln as it was a bigger centre but it was only 30 minutes away so we sorted out our plans to stay in CB for 3 night and drive to wherever we wanted and then go to PL for a couple of days to do local stuff there too.I love oysters so it had been a wish of mine to go on an oyster tour for ages, so even though Jon gags at the thought of eating an oyster I organised a tour where we got to get into waders and walk out into the sea and sit amongst the oyster farm in the bay. After doing it we would recommend it to EVERYONE. It was so interesting, the farmer who took us out was so great at explaining the history of oyster farming, the new practises of farming and all sorts of interesting facts about coffin bay oysters. We actually didn’t realise, but as well as trying the oysters we then got to shuck our own oysters and eat them too. Jon ate 3 and I ate the rest. It was Jons first oyster and even though I’ve had fresh oysters before, I have NEVER tasted anything like the oysters we ate on that tour. Having them fresh, directly from the basket they were farmed in, shucked in front of you tastes like nothing you can even imagine. I’ve probably set myself up for a lifetime of disappointment now if I ever order oysters again.There was a couple of people who came on the tour with us that were new workers at the oyster farm, who were about our age and on the way back in Jon got to talking with John who asked if they could come fishing with us the next day. Instant friends!CB is definitely going down in the book of memories, because as of the trip so far we hadn’t caught one single fish. Sitting on the inlet, next to the boat ramps after about 3 hours of fishing, Jon caught the first fish of the trip. A little baby flathead! We moved onto the town jetty for a little while afterwards and I took the rod for 2 minutes and I managed to catch another flathead and a crab! Jon caught another crab after that but as with everything we’d caught it was all really small so we put them all back in. It got pretty dark after that but we could hear and see something moving about in the water under the jetty, we figured out it was a seal! It was so cute snorting up at us but it was way too dark for a photo so you’ll all just have to believe us on this one. When we got back we saw a few kangaroos dotted around the place, and then when we were looking out our back door a kangaroo lazily hopped past the back fence. That along with the little blue wrens all through the back garden made for a bit of a surreal animal experience.On our way out the next morning we casually had to wait for a couple of emu’s to cross the road, and then again stopped to see one moseying along in our neighbours front yard. Did we mention that SA was putting it on for us in the wild animal world? We fished again the next morning off the jetty again – this time less bites and much more wind so it wasn’t as productive though it was just as enjoyable. After that we left to head to PL which was a short drive so we stopped in at the Glen Forest Animal Farm where we got to get up close and personal with some koalas! It had been something that was distinctly missing from our trip so far, as every place we had been to either the koalas had recently passed away or they hadn’t been able to get any in recently. So of course SA had some for us to pat and watch them eat their lunch! They also had some of the sweetest kangaroos to hand feed that we had ever met (and this was probably the 4th lot that we’d hand fed so far). They were so super gentle and lovely to approach.We took some time out to visit the Axel Stenross Maritime museum which was super interesting for this part of Australia. Port Lincoln is the only place in Aus that you can go cage diving with great white sharks. It was something that Jon would have done if it didn’t cost a gazillion dollars. There was the option of swimming with some sea lions but it was only half a gazillion dollars and also something that we decided that we could pass up. It would have been incredible for Jon to do it, and something that is on his bucket list, but its just something that isn’t for this trip, this time around. Gives us a good excuse to come back one day and see all of the things we have to miss on this trip this time around!We also decided to drive straight to Adelaide from PL instead of stopping over in Whyalla. I have felt the need to get to Adelaide probably since we were in Esperance – not because I want to trip to be over, but it just feels like once we get there its another huge chunk of the trip that is done. We had always planned to spend a week in Adelaide, as there is SO much to do there but also so that we have 7 days in one location where we don’t need to pack up or unpack every day or couple of days, we can just actually relax.It took us about 7 or 8 hours in total between us driving from PL to Adelaide and in true ‘Tan’ luck I didn’t think about parking or anything like that in the city so of course we didn’t fit in any of the car parks and everywhere around us were tow away zones. We hit Adelaide around 7pm, super tired, hungry and then we didn’t fit anywhere so I had to park in a church car park go and find something for dinner and google hard for a open air car park to put the car overnight. I was successful! Thank goodness we decided to start early the next day, as the car park we were in was closed off for works at some point during the night and they were parking massive crane trucks all around our car. Who knows what they were up to, but the tradies were super excited that I came in to move the car out of the way. Just in time too as they’d closed off the roads, and were getting the last truck in!Next to explore is some of the Adelaide Hills!