Venus Bay

If someone said –

“I want a place where fishermen can go out safely in small tinnys into sheltered pristine waters.  There must be a safe launching area within 80 meters of the caravan park. AND the waters must be full of the best tasting fish in Australia”

Good looking bird on Venus Bay Jetty

That person would be talking about Venus Bay South Australia which has all this and more.

We spent 8 nights at Venus Bay and the tinny got wet every day except the last day which is pack-up day.

Despite some absolute “chilled to the bone” days it was good being out on the water.

a dozen KG's about to be converted to fillets

Took me a while to learn the ropes and master the King George (KG) Whiting  but with a bit of trial and error and a lot of talking to the locals I was eventually a “whiz” and ended up 15 meals of KG’s vacuum sealed for the weeks ahead.

Its a bird, its a plane, no its a whiting frame!

The Caravan Park is busy and I have never seen so many roof-top tinnies in one spot.  No wonder with all those KG’s out there ready for the taking! Whilst the Park doesn’t have a lot of water the facilities are first rate and very clean.

Even grey nomads get up at dawn for a good photo

The flats of the estuary are a haven for water birds and at any time there would be a hundred or so birds of many different species in front of the Park.

Yahoo – we will be back!

Worlds biggest Oysters @ $7/dozen