A beautiful morning with waves breaking on the rocky reef, we sighted an Osprey on the nest with young situated on Mexican Hat (rocky island outcrop). Seals and dolphins patrolling the outer surf line with the seals moving into the inshore lagoon, all wonderful to see.

Onto Fowlers Bay, another beautiful remote coastal community we see a Wood Sandpiper tail feeding around the sabkahs. Whales use this bay, but it’s also important to shorebirds and seals. As we have seen in the past the beach is amply covered with washed up seagrass, great for small critters and therefore great for birds.

Back on the road and through Ceduna then to our camp site at Tractor Beach, south of Streaky Bay. There are only a few campers, plenty of migratory shorebirds, likely young Sanderlings who haven’t flown north for the nesting season but should soon be joined by their parents and others returning back to Australia. The interesting isolated stacks and headlands are also accompanied by equally interesting geology.