Stokes Bay

Sometimes when we have some spare time, we go explore the Island and go some places. A few weeks ago we went to Stokes Bay and had a picnic on the beach. The weather wasn't too good but still, you know us, we had everything prepared for a nice lunch so we went anyway.

Coming out of the driveway of 1 km....

a few impressions of the island....

First of all you have to know that approx. 80 percent of the roads are dirt roads, mostly full with potholes but hey! we've got a 4WD now don't we??

Actually in the mean time we know better. While we were bouncing around in our car, having our kidneys creeping towards our throat, Fred went once to the tip with David in Davids car and the bouncing was much less then with our car. Then Fred had a bright moment and thought that most probably our tires were too hard. So, now that's fixed, much better!

But not when we went to Stokes Bay. After digging through a booklet about Kangaroo Island, I found some nice little roads to go to the shore.....

We came along a gate, a barn and a house but still thought it was a public road......

we made some nice pictures of the coast......

so proud of his car......

in the mean time we saw people coming to the house and a dog was barking at us when we drove past to go back to the main road.

When we came to the gate, it was closed haha! We must have been wandering around in someones garden!

After opening the gate, we bounced further to Stokes Bay.....

From the car park there is a little path through the rocks which leads to the beach.... 

you will see that afterwards but first we have a walk along the beach, listening to the ocean before we take our lunch gear out....

As you can see the weather is not too good but that also has something special as then the sea is a bit wild and that fascinates....

Look at the structure of the rocks, isn't that amazing!

Listen to the music of the sea.....

Not only the sea is fascinating but also the creatures who lives in it, look at these colours!

In the rocks grows little gardens......

The weather became better and hiding between two rock, out of the wind, we had our lunch with a view on the large rock-enclosed pool that provides protection from the surf and a save swimming spot for the whole family, no creepy crawler or big jaws !! (hopefully)

aaaah, sausages!!

You come to this beach by following the signs and make your way though the headland of boulders. After our nice lunch between the cliffs we headed back on the track to the car park...

Its not easy you know!

After this lovely spot we bounced back home with the lunch between our ears but we wouldn't have wanted to miss it.

See ya next time!!

Cheers...