Mount Barker & Hahndorf SA

From Cowell we moved to Mount Barker which is in the Adelaide Hills, Hahndorf is only 5k's away. Mt Barker is what you would call the Leura of SA, such a great town, with everything you could possibly want. We ventured out to Hahndorf for the day and feasted on fabulous German sausages etc, yum! Hahndorf was established by Germans who were fleeing Prussia, the town is full of fabulous places to sample all that is German, beer food cheese, it's all good. It was much larger than we thought it would be and we enjoyed it thoroughly.

Coffin Bay & Cowell SA

Coffin Bay has to have one of the most pretty entries to the town, you come down a hill and as you turn the bend the beautiful blue water hits you. It is such a pretty bay with great places to fish. The shops are a nice change and the pub has excellent food at reasonable prices. Did I mention you get oysters straight from the growers at $7 a dozen and they are huge! Mick is in heaven.

The weather changed on us after a couple of days so we decided to move on and try to get away from the gale force winds. We decided Cowell would be a good base, the caravan park is right in town and next to the jetty which has many options for fishing and crabbing. While we were there people were catching sand crabs off the jetty, they were very tiny though and after a mud crab I'm not sure you would be bothered trying to get the meat out of them.
Cowell did have some great examples of SA architecture, they have so many old building made from stone and obviously do look after them and keep them for the future, here are a couple.

The bay covers 48 square kilometers and the town in known for it's aquaculture and agriculture, also a type of Jade is found in this area. This photo is from across the bay looking back at one of the pubs.