I survived another night and high tide jammed against the cliff. I think I was lucky that when high tide happened at 6am it was flat calm. If there had been waves I think my tent would have been under water.
I got going by 9:15am on a very calm ocean. It was 6km down to Port Vincent. I passed by the Port Vincent Marina, it didn’t have many boats in it. I think boating around here would be hard. The tides are about twice as high as the other side of the gulf, and when it’s low tide it’s very, very shallow, that even a sea kayak has problems getting around. I landed at Port Vincent and found the water tap and loaded more water. I then went to the local IGA and got some banana’s and an apple ( I just couldn’t fit things like that in my kayak).
- I got going again and then spent a frustrating hour trying to get around the low tide exposed areas east of Port Vincent. Eventually I got south of it. I stopped for late lunch just south of Port Vincent. I headed south and stopped in at Devil Gully which has a shelter for the Walk the Yorke. It was a good beach but I kept going for another 2km to Deep Gully. Camping wasn’t fantastic, but at least I got get well above the high tide mark. I did 15km today. I planned this trip thinking I could do 20km per day, but I am way behind schedule already.
