Today felt like magic.

We have been in Streaky Bay since Wednesday. Due to the fact that I have been working (and do work) Monday to Friday from my laptop, we haven't really done much exploring around the Streaky Bay surrounds. We had a booking for this weekend at Perlubie Beach, which was going to be the end point of our Eyre Peninsula exploring before heading back to Adelaide by next weekend to see some friends before booting back to Melbourne.

Perlubie is this amazing beach camp, where you are camped on the sand of a stunning beach only 20 mins north of Streaky Bay - people rave about it and we were pumped to get the booking as it can be tough to get in there.

We bailed on the booking.

Why?

To be honest - and this is going to sound weird as hell to some people - but we couldn't be bothered!

If you've read a few of my other posts, which you probably haven't because I'm almost certain I'm the only one who reads these posts, but we've been on the move a lot lately, and we are feeling burnt out. Beach camps are bloody epic - but they can be a big time drainer as well. Dropping tyre pressures on the car and the van can be a bit of a time in itself, and we honestly just weren't feeling it. Don't get me wrong, I have little doubt we would have been frothing it no end if we had of gone there, but I have absolutely no regrets on bailing when we just weren't feeling it.

So what did we do instead?

We had an amazing day exploring the surrounds of Streaky Bay. The morning was spent driving out to Murphys Haystacks, which was about 30 minutes south of Streaky Bay. Murphys Haystacks are these super cool rock formations that are - wait for it - estimated to be 1500 million years old. Um, yep, you read that right. The girls had a ball climbing all over these rocks and boulders (I hope they were allowed to) and seeing something that was just so unique.

From there we hit some dirt roads for 41km's to Point Labett, which is home to a sea lion colony. From an observation deck on the cliff face, we were able to look down on these sea lions just frolicking about and doing their thing while looking out to the Great Australian Bight, an incredibly rugged and beautiful ocean.

We briefly headed back to our caravan, before the girls begged to go to the playground and we headed to beach for a quick swim and to get some salt water on our skins, and the girls had a play before we headed back to our van for dinner and bed time routine.

The moral of today, for us anyway, was to do what feels right. And once we head off from Melbourne with our new van next month, our focus will be on travelling less, stopping at less places, but exploring more of the places we do stop. Because what's the point of stopping and starting every few days, when you can't remember anything about the places you stopped because you were only there for 48 hours?

See you tomorrow.

Adam

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