Another strange name for a place but its not as spooky or a place of illness as you might think. Coffin Bay was named by that chap Lt Matthew Flinders in his ship The Investigator again but not because of any deathly secrets but when he returned to England in 1810 (after discovering this line of coast in 1802) he named it after Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin who was Naval Commissioner of Sheerness Naval Dockyards who had been responsible for the fitting out of the ship for the voyage to Terra Australis.
Coffin Bay is a pretty little oyster fishing village set around the bay. Oyster beds can be seen in the bay as the main industry. There is a walking trail known as Oyster Walk running along the coast from the village around the headland set amongst some lovely heathland vegetation that takes you round to the boundary of the Coffin Bay National Park. A delightful walk, and even got some fishing in as well…….! We did have to compete with the fishing trawler that tipped out hundreds of fish called Ocean Jackets on the jetty next to us. They were already beheaded ready for market….but not sure what they were like for eating they did’nt give us any!
Coffin Bay viewed from Oyster Walk
A view captured from the front of a little house called Catherine's Balcony....what a view!
Wildflowers on Oyster Walk at Coffin Bay
Who's a pretty pink boy then!....(no I'm a Galah not a parrot!)
Oyster board Walk
A spot of fishing at Coffin Bay jetty
....here's some we caught earlier!
.......no these are all mine!