Blogs from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Today, because of 'predicted weather', we went for a tour in the air-conditioned comfort of the car, summer has come with way too much vengence for this Central Vic couple and dog ! Heading south again, we headed to Stansbury, situated on the East Coast in the shelter of Oyster Bay. Another picture post card town with an incredibly uncanny resemblance to Port Vincent. Black swans can be seen on the south side of the towns beach, weird ! The Oyster farms supply fresh local oysters straight from the sea so we called in to the local bloke and purchased oysters at $7.50 a dozen (oops, sorry, promised Trish I would not say that), so lunch had been settled for the day! We then headed inland to Minlaton, known as "Barley Capital of the World". What's ... read more

Today was a day of firsts for Trish and I, the first day we slept till 8am something we have not done for a long time, in fact i dont recall the last time for me! We saw our first snake in the bush and we had our first King George Whiting (fish). We had planned to only spend half a day sightseeing but as we headed to the bottom end we did no realise there was so much to see and once again spent a full day enjoying ourselves Heading south, through Stansbury and Coobowie to Edithburg. Edithburg ahs always been onr of the landmark towns of the Yorke, made more so now by the Wattle Point Wind Farm. These things are giants as you will see from pics we have taken. Edithburg has a ... read more

After surviving an amazing electrical thunderstorm overnight we left our great campsite at Yacka ($15 for power/showers and toilet!)and headed south to Snowtown, known for the crime scene in which a number of bodies were found in barrels in the disused local bank vault. A movie has now been produced about these events. Snowtown is the main service centre for small towns in the area. Historic public buildings, again all stone, and businesses provide an interesting browse. A huge wind farm now also sits on top of the surrounding Hummocks Ranges. Driving further south through Lochiel we headed to Balaklava for our coffee stop. Finding a parking spot outside one of the 6 churches in the town, we were greeted by Shirley who promptly invited us back to her place for a chat. Balaklava is the ... read more

Driving from Adelaide to the Yorke Peninsula was eerie after being in a city. The cars and people quickly dissipated into nothing - so much so that we wondered if we had missed some important memo telling people to stay indoors or something. Two towns we drove through had absolutely no-one around. We were heading for a free camp called ‘The Gap’ to rest over Easter while everything was so busy. The Gap was one of those special finds. One that doesn’t seem fantastic until you’ve given it a go. I must say that although stunningly beautiful, it wasn’t the scenery that made the gap special - it was the people. A group of local people from a place called Moonta were there, all escaping the influx of people to their pretty little town. They took ... read more

We have booked into the caravan park on the water at Walleroo on the western coast of the Yorke Peninsular. After a day of catching up on washing and being lazy in the sun, we left Port Vincent this morning and drove down the east coast and across to the western side. The scenery was mostly farming with the very green paddocks and a few sheep, with lambs, and always the ocean in view. It's a stoney coast and the paddocks have many stones piled up, made into rock walls and the ever present stone houses - it reminded me of western Ireland with all the stones. We stopped for lunch at the wharf at Port Victoria, notable because it was from this wharf that the last two windjammers left full of grain in 1949. This ... read more