Doing the Wave

Driving in South Australia, in particular The Eyre Peninsula you may have noticed that everybody does the wave!

This wave doesn't come from knowing someone and it doesn't come from being courteous.  You just wave when you pass someone.  Once you get the hang of it, it sort of seems rude not to...

The courtesy wave can be used in a variety of situations:

• When merging lanes and your fellow driver creates space for you to merge
• When driving on a narrow street and the oncoming driver pulls over allowing you to pass
• When yielding right of way when the right-of-way is unclear
• When acknowledging a driver of the same vehicle – a particular favourite of motorcyclists and Kombi drivers
• When apologising for a driving indiscretion such as (accidentally) cutting off another driver

versus the Eyre Peninsula wave, which is just used all the time, whenever you pass another car, a pedestrian, a person.

From Melbourne to Port Lincoln

Well, here it is.  A blog on my discovery of the Eyre Peninsula.  A collection of experiences shared with old friends, new friend's, family and of course my lovely, handsome husband. 

I have recently moved here from Melbourne, where I worked at the head office of one of Australia's most global fashion brands as International Visual Merchandiser.  So after hanging up my fashion shoes, I packed up my beautiful little Victorian weatherboard house in inner Melbourne and headed out into the unknown.  (Okay, I didnt pack up the house.  A drunken injury had me with a broken wrist so it was packed up by my loving parent-in-laws, husband and the useless removalists).  With car loaded to the brim, we drove 1376km across Australia in my little VW Golf (accomanied by two of my sisters) to find ourselves in a land of 4WD's, farmland, national parks, turquiose ocean, Great White Sharks, Coffin Bay Oytsers, Southern Bluefin Tuna and some very friendly people.

I welcome you to join and follow as I share with you my discovery of Port Lincoln and the Eyre Peninsula...

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