If any of you have not ever been to the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, let me tell you, you are missing something special. Over all we travelled just about all of it from the
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As we wrote in our last bulletin, we started at Ardrossan, then moved to Black Point and then to Stansbury. We called at Port Vincent on the way to Stansbury and found this funny sign outside the local IGA. At Sta
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It was here where we really got into “raking” for Blue Swimmer crabs, ate Gar Fish and friends gave us recipes for Salt & Pepper Squid and Chilli Crab! Oysters you could purchase for $7.00 per do
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We had lots of lovely shared dinners, laughs, fishing and walks. This included helping Barry and Janet celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Another lovely event was Rob’s cousin, Allan Pierson with Megan and the three lovely kids arriving in Stansbury. Al & Megan, like us have been trav
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From Stansbury we took many drives to explore the area. Yorketown was 20kms away and had a nice little shopping centre. Here we also took advantage of making dentist appointments to have that check up! It is so hard to get into a dentist when you’re travelling! Stansbury had a good IGA but Yorketown had a more extensive one. Good gourmet butchers were found in all surrounding towns including Stansbury. Minlaton was another lovely town with good bakery, butchers and here I could get our shoes repaired too! All the bakeries around made great Cornish pasties with much of the Peninsula heritage stemming from Cornwall and Cornish
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The Peninsula is a windy place and they use it to good advantage. The wind farm at Edithburgh was probably the biggest we have c
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The coastal drive south from Edithburgh took us around some spectacular coastal scenery including the Troubridge Island Lighthouse, built out of red brick! Very distinctive. Another drive took us across the Peninsula (40kms) to Hardwick Bay then south to Corney Point and another lighthouse. We followed a dirt coastal road right down until we reached Innes National Park at Seal Point. From here though there is no direct road through the park so we had to head back inland and drive down to Marion Bay for access to the National Park. You drive through Stenhouse Bay into the park and it is truly beautiful. History shows how difficult it was though for shipping navigation as the coastline is literally littered with shipwrecks.
Another drive took us inland and north through Minlaton, Maitland and onto Moonta. Moonta was the home in the late 1800’s for approximately 15,000 people, mainly Cornis
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New Year saw an invitation to travel to Adelaide and meet up with Jan & Grant Nankervis from Cobar. We spent the night there and gently saw the New Year in. Travelled back to Stansbury the next day as we had to begin packing and dismantling the annex to leave Stansbury and travel to Moonta Bay. At Moonta we rode the Heritage Mining train around the mine absorbing the history, then drove to Wallaroo and checked out the new Marina there. This area of Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta is known as the Copper Coast. Then our time to leave the Yorke Peninsula had come and the 5th January saw us leave the Yorke Peninsula and head towards Whyalla.
We decided to free camp for four nights before heading into Whyalla and found a perfect spot about 30kms from the town at a place called Fitzgerald Bay. Lovely clear turquoise sea and all to ourselves. We have been snorkelling and caught some more crabs and scallops on which we dined. Tomorrow we head into Whyalla for new experiences.
Until next time,
The Happy Travellers
Rob & Walter
1 comment:
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