The first of the planned trips was the sand dunes at Coffin Bay and out to Point Sir Isaac with a meal at the Coffin Bay Sporting Association to finish the day.
The weather wasn’t all that warm with misty drizzle but it was the strong winds that were not that welcome. There wasn’t going to be any dust today but the wind certainly whipped up the sand in the dunes.
Well it didn’t take long for the first vehicle to get bogged. Phil managed to get his Ford Territory bogged on the first dune. A quick recovery from David in his Hyundai Terracan and we were on our way over the dunes to Gunyah Beach.
The plan was to go for a drive up Gunyah Beach but with the gale force winds, we would have been sand blasted so a quick line up of the vehicles, some photos and we headed back through the dunes to the beaches on the eastern side – hopefully the wind wont be as severe.
The wind certainly wasn’t severe but it was raining on and off which meant for some firm sand both in the dunes and on the beach. We continued along the eastern coast of the Coffin Bay National Park, stopping for lunch at Black Springs Campground, along the Seven Mile Beach to Point Sir Isaac. At Point Sir Isaac we introduced some more muggles to geocaching while we did some maintenance to the cache located there.
The rain was starting to abate but the wind certainly wasnt as we returned along Seven Mile Beach to Point Avoid. We were back on the bitumen so a chance to put the tyre pressures back up and then move onto the Coffin Bay Sporting Association for tea. The meal was good once it arrived. I think we overwhelmed their staff with the numbers we had, even though we had let them know a couple of weeks ago that we would be there.
The group broke up here after the meal with Garry and me geocaching our way back to the campsite.
It was a big day with 300 kilometres and 29 geocache finds.
