Moonta Bay November 2010



Moonta Bay Jetty at Sunset

We had a wonderful family holiday in November.  Jamie and I with both boys stayed at the Moonta Bay Caravan Park.  Mum and Dad Saunders stayed right next door our cabin in their caravan which was great. 

It probably took a day or so to get into the swing of holidays, but then it was great.  We did the typical tourist stuff like Moonta Mines on the tourist train, Miners Cottage, and family historian. 

I met with the local family historian who gave me a lot of information about Jamie's Penhall family.  There was heaps, and she managed to solve some mysteries for me too about the Baker side of the family.

Every day I walked along the beach collecting shells and stones.  Charlie loved the stones cleaning them straight away into his little red tin lunch box. The beach was pretty and sunsets glorious. 

Mum and I enjoyed walks along the jetty admiring the fish people had or hadn't caught.  We even saw a man catch a squid and all of the ink sprayed a big black cloud into the water blow and then all over the jetty.  We steered clear! 

Every night we had a BBQ as the meat and food was cheap, so we were better off preparing our own food.  The caravan park facilities were excellent and very clean too and we could enjoy the beautiful scenery of the beach whilst bitten by a million mosquitoes. That was the only thing, a million mosquitoes. 

The kids had a swim down the beach, but ended up with sand everywhere, it was quite hard work but Dad and I took some awesome photos and had the opportunity to laugh at the boys chasing each other around the beach throwing sand at each other. 

So we had 5 lovely nights and days at Moonta Bay and really look forward to doing it again sometime.