PORT LINCOLN S.A. – DAY 15

MONDAY 23rd MARCH 2009 – PORT LINCOLN S.A. – DAY 15

We want to get our tyre sorted out today so we are recommended the local Beaurepairs is the place to go. We find it and are told we need a new tyre and to come back in 2 hours and it will be ready. We decide to go into town and have a coffee and sandwich and do some other jobs we need to do. After lunch I go to the local jeweler where I need my bracelet fixed (a precious piece of jewellery that was left to me by my mum). The safety chain has broken so I need to get it fixed. I find a place and the jeweler is very helpful. He tells me my bracelet is worth a lot of money and agrees to repair it and I can pick it up at 3pm.

In the meantime I head to the cycle shop. I want to purchase a basket for my bike so that Lucy can come cycling with me. Whilst she is very fit and loves to run sometimes it is a bit dangerous as she runs along beside me, I am frightened she will run in front of the tyres and do some damage to herself so it would be easier for her to sit in a little seat.

The man at the bike shop finds a bike basket that is suitable and tells me he can fit it to my bike and it will be ready later this afternoon. I have to go back to the caravan park and pick my bike up and bring it back. This I do but Nick decides to stay back at camp with Lucy this time. This will also give me a chance to see some of the shops on my own after I drop my bike off and pick up my bracelet.

I want to cook a Spanish paella so I get directions to the local seafood outlet where I meet the owner who is a delightful Turkish man. He tells me he sends most of his seafood interstate or overseas. One restaurant he recommended to me in Sydney (to which buys a lot of his seafood) is Casa Astoriano – a Spanish Restaurant in Sydney (just across the road from the Spanish Club). I told him we would try this restaurant when we are back in Sydney.

He sold me some green prawns, butter fish, squid, mussels and 2 dozen of the freshest oysters I had ever seen. I purchased the rest of the ingredients I needed to make my wonder dish and was hoping to also purchase an oyster knife. I was unsuccessful so would have to make do with a sharp paring knife and a pair of heavy duty gloves.

I pick up my bike and can’t wait until Lucy and I can try it out. I’m sure it will be perfect.

I can’t believe where the time has gone but after a phone call from Nick (he thought I had become lost I had been gone for so long) I made my way back to camp.
We are leaving here in the morning so I decide not to cook my paella and have a light tea before heading to bed for an early night.