20151007 SA Ceduna/Thevenard to Smoky Bay

20151007 Ceduna and Thevenard: The history of the area dates back to 1802 when a French Naval Officer surveyed part of the coast.  The township of Thevenard is virtually an extension of Ceduna and since the arrival of the railway in 1915 has developed into an important port for shipment of product of the upper Eyre Peninsula.

Pinky Point Port in Thevenard

Many Greeks made a living from fishing after the two plaster factories closed down in the 1930s.

Ceduna Fore Shores off Murat Bay is blessed with blue skies most days of the year and is the last major town on the drive west to Perth and the first after crossing the Nullarbor from Western Australia.

The records say Ceduna boast rich Aboriginal cultural ties which I’m sure is does but all we witnessed was the Special Operations Group continually circling the town and getting abused by the locals.

We decided NOT to stay in Ceduna so we left and found a camp spot just out of town.

08-10-2015  We were woken to server winds rocking the van and I mean rocking but by early morning it had subsided.  Named by Matthew Flinders in 1802, and he wrote:“ There was smoke arising from a number of fires on the shore… (I resolved) … to give it the name of Smoky Bay” Imaginative fellow wasn’t he.

Smoky Bay was a port for grain farmers in the surrounding areas and before the jetty the grain was waded out to boats using horses and carts and also for receiving supplies in from boats that arrived once a month.

Smoky Bay has now become home to over 20 different oyster operations and this is just one of the aluminum barges used to carry oysters which are all locally designed and manufactured.

I was lucky enough to capture this guy relaxing at the end of the jetty, at first I thought he was sick but apparently this is how they relax.