A Pictorial Guide to Fishing Road Trips in South Australia

[Bolty]

Okay so you're going fishing ??

Where you ask. Locks Well Beach near Elliston is a famed Salmon beach.
Not a place for the foolhardy. A place of contrasts,the area is so arid, yet the sea is rich with fish.

[Bolty]

So head West

http://www.hotkey.net.au/~krool/photos/sa/Eyre%20Hwy1.jpg

[Bolty]

Dont turn right!!http://www.hotkey.net.au/~krool/photos/sa/Pt%20Augusta-Eyre%20Hwy9.jpg

[Bolty]

Avoid the other road users

Theres one every 20 k's or so
http://www.expedition360.com/journal/bikers_and_road_kill.jpg

[Bolty]

Get Halfway across Australia and continue going...

http://www.xlv.ch/XR/Bilder/Australia/Half_Way_Kimba.jpg

[Bolty]

Where to stay I hear you ask ??

http://www.ellistoncaravanpark.com.au

[Bolty]

Okay - So what to catch

For the less adventurous there's the local jetty to keep you busy pulling the usual tommies, garfish, etc etc

http://static.flickr.com/40/79249621_e891774393.jpg

[Bolty]

But for the fisherman willing to make a bit of an effort ...

We have Locks Well.

A place where the salmon swarm through the waves in the right conditions.
There are 280 steps down to the beach

http://home.iprimus.com.au/mtaj/locks-well.jpg

[Bolty]

Shit thats alot of steps with rods and fish in tow

http://www.ellistoncaravanpark.com.au/b_ells31.htm?image=scenery4.jpg

[Bolty]

The rewards are many for the well prepared..


Moral of the story ??

Dont travel all that distance with a 50 dollar Jarvis Walker rod from KMart cause it will break after one drop in the sand and you'll be buggered

[joemac]

mmmm, I drove across the nulabour once. We counted 1000 dead roo's in 4 days. (there wasn't much else to do.)

[Nyala]

I live in Woopwoop and come across dead roos or koalas everytime we drive more than 10km from home....it's so sad. The fishing is great, though.

[Chick]

I live in Woopwoop

is being very childish, but can't stop sniggering and snorting at this ...... no, there I go again..... giggle snort giggle snort.....

[biffon]

After living in Africa i thought id come across some funny town names but i have to say Australia has the funniest

Woopwoop
Waggawagga
Enyabba
Tittybong
Wallanippie
Wallaninani
Mirraponga pongunna (like WTF!!)
Poothree matoo (Holy @#$^%^ )

[Shayne]

NZ - Whakapapa pronounced Fucka papa.

Everything thing here with "wh" is "f"

[mambo]

After living in Africa i thought id come across some funny town names but i have to say Australia has the funniest

Woopwoop
Waggawagga
Enyabba
Tittybong
Wallanippie
Wallaninani
Mirraponga pongunna (like WTF!!)
Poothree matoo (Holy @#$^%^ )



HAHAHA so true. i have seen some names like a foot long!

[Nyala]

After living in Africa i thought id come across some funny town names but i have to say Australia has the funniest

Woopwoop
Waggawagga
Enyabba
Tittybong
Wallanippie
Wallaninani
Mirraponga pongunna (like WTF!!)
Poothree matoo (Holy @#$^%^ )


Hahahahaha...thats so true. And after Africa we tend to pronounce the 'a' as 'u' - as in Harare becomes Hurure, try pronouncing Tallangatta, Yakandandah, Tangambalanga or Wangaratta!! But then just down the road we have Beechworth, Bright, Rutherglen and Glenrowan (Outlaw Ned Kelly's stamping grounds). We have a little town just down the road called Howlong - what were they thinking??????? It took us a while to lose the African pronounciations and say the Aboriginal names in Australian.
And another thing is that the Outback is relative to where you live so to the Melbournians, we live in the outback but to us the outback is about 50 km north west. Crazy!!!

[Bolty]

What about - djabringyabongalong - nsw??

[joemac]

and Waiwhakamukau in NZ

[Nyala]

What about - djabringyabongalong - nsw??


There's also Dijabringyagrogalong - Vic