In the meantime I check out the low tide life in the shallow waters of the nearby beach. The point of being in Baird Bay is coz Baird Eco-Resort offer tours where people can swim with sea-lions. The remains of Calca Calca’s cemetary, more alive than the town View over Baird Bay Baird Bay panorama The first Real Rocks, granite, I’ve seen since Esperence 2000 km west Having been separated from the group due to my photo-addiction I catch up with them at Calca, now abandoned. Aside of one out of Esperance in WA I’ve not come across any memorial to the countless more Aborigines who were killed by ‘pioneers’ or ‘explorers’. I’ve come across numerous memorials to fallen pioneers, a number of which were killed by ‘natives’. A year after he brought the first sheep to the area he was killed by Aborigines and his remains buried in one of the salt lakes. Jimmy Baird’s last stand reminds us it was not always such a benevolent place. A successful Bobby rescue Salt lakes and Mallee Surf at Surfer’s Beach Surfers Beach Pretty inlet Salt lakes dot the area, still with water. The surf pounds beaches but a few hundred meters away, behind dunes.
Cycle Convoy enroute Baird BayĪsphalt gives way to gravel. Bobbys need rescuing. Sunday the 4 th the four of us leave Streaky for Baird Bay, some 50 km to the south.
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