80 Mile Beach

Eighty Mile Beach is renowned for its fishing and shell collecting. It is very remote. The sign at the caravan park suggests that you can swim if you want but the owners cannot tell you what might be out there (sharks? crocs? stingers?)

We were lucky enough to be at 80 Mile Beach Caravan Park on a Wednesday. From 1pm they have a market, where there were things (clothes, DVD's etc) grey nomads had bought back from o'seas, 2nd hand books, crafts - including beads, crocheted blankets, tea cosies and knitted toys. There was also a little girl who made delicious pear muffins that were still hot from the oven - she sold out first! Anyone could set up a stall for a gold coin donation to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

In the evening they had "hamburger night". $6 per burger. BYO plate, drinks and chairs. Great social occasion. There they asked Liam to draw the raffle from the market, which I did not win! The first prize was a crocheted blanket in Hawthorn colours. I was hoping to gift it to my brother - sorry Mick!

Four views of Eighty Mile Beach - this is not low tide!

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A smattering of the smaller shells we collected at low tide...