The Yorke Peninsula 

We left Port Willunga and headed through Adelaide and around to Port Julia. There was nothing there except a good low cost camp at the reserve there. It’s a little fishing town with just houses and a recycle plant.



This part of South Australia was completely different from what we had seen so far. Everything is so dry and they don’t seem to take pride in their possession’s. It was as if they couldn’t be bothered, if it’s broken down its ok to just leave it where it falls. So long as the house is still standing there is no need for maintenance. Was a bit disappointing from where we had been. 

Matt had read that South Australia is the driest state in Australia and I’d believe it.

We made Port Julia our base and did a couple of day trips from there.



First afternoon I had promised to do some face painting. Very bad face painting. Boys made a birds nest and went backwards & forwards checking on it for the next 3 days. No birds went near it.



Tuesday we went for a drive up to Ardrossan. We went past a lookout so we thought we’d drive up and check it out. The lookout was made by the mining company. So one side we saw into a open cut mine and the other side where they load the grain onto the ships. And the beautiful coastline that has a huge tidal area.



The following day we thought we’d go for a drive to figure out where we would go next. Lucky we did. The first place was ok but no one else there. The next place we took a wrong turn and ended up on a four wheel drive track. We found the spot we wanted to go to but couldn’t figure out how to get over the cliffs. We tried again didn’t succeed tried one more time and got there. It was a beautiful spot. Other than dirt road it was easy to get to once we knew how. So Burners beach was going to be our next spot.

We drove back through Yorketown and along the coast. Was so dry and all the lakes had dried up just making them salt lakes. Poor farmers.

We decided to change the boys beds around as Ethan keeps hitting his head on the top bunk and Nate doesn’t want to sleep up there. It seems roomer without the bunk down.



The following morning we went back into Ardrossan and got supplies. This little town has the best customer service I have ever seen. Mitre 10 the guy gave Matt some fishing advice and continued until he had finished even though he had other customers waiting. The Foodland deli lady gave the boys some meat to eat while we walked around. Then Matt took them to the grog shop while I went through the checkout and the guy in there gave the boys a hat each to stop them running a muck in the shop.

Then we went to Burners beach. What a beautiful place. My favourite place so far.



Water was crystal clear. Nice and shallow so it was safe for the boys to swim. Beautiful white sand with cliffs lining the coast.

We all went down and watch the sunset on the first night. It was spectacular.



The next 2 days we stayed around camp. Matt tried a bit of fishing with no luck. We all went exploring on the rocks looking for crabs. We saw Dolphins, stingrays, pelicans and baby whiting swimming. 1 of the day’s the water was a bit murky so we didn’t let the boys go in past there knees just incase shark were about.

On the Sunday we headed down to Marion Bay then on to Innes National Park. Marion Bay was nice little fishing village. Innes National Park was beautiful. It is on our to come back to list. Next time we would stay down there and spend a week at least as there is some much to explore. We stopped in at Ethel Beach and Dolphin Beach. 



We spent another 2 days around camp. Just enjoying the beach. We meet a lovely couple (Des & Karen) there who took pity on Matt and gave us some Australian Salmon to cook for tea. It was beautiful.



We moved on to a little town just the other side of Kadina called Alford. Another fantastic low cost camp at the old school grounds. With flush toilets, water, clothesline, BBQ and a playground. We made this base and we went and checked out Wallaroo and found a fantastic playround. Then we found out that Moonta Bay had a free splash park so we drove down there to check it out. 



  





The next day we went into Kadina to swap over solar panels as one of our panels had broken and Matt had made contact with Redarc (the company of the solar panel) and the guy from Redarc understood how important the solar panels are to us and he rang around and organised for us to just go into the nearest town, which had one in stock, and swap it over. Talk about awesome service.  It had warmed up by the time we got back and with little shade and no swimming spot there was only one way to cool down. All out war was declared and the water fight started.



Was great fun.

• The next day we headed off to Port Germein. The longest wooden jetty in Australia. The town itself we didn’t think much of. But the jetty was spectacular. Over 1557mtrs long. Was so proud of the boys Ethan walked all the way. Nate I had to carry 1/3of the way back.



We thought we’d see if this shop on the corner near the jetty would do fish & chips. When I pulled up the 2 guys running the store were out the front pissed. When I asked what I wanted they were like “No dramas we can do that for you”. Matt committed us to it I was so worried $12 for 3 bits of fish and enough chips for the 4 of us. We went back to pick it up and have a play at the playground. Ended up costing $15 but was pretty good. Not as good as Riverlakes general store but wasn’t the worse fish I’ve had.







We left the Yorke Peninsula the following day and moved on to the Eyre Peninsula.

I love the Yorke. Towns are not a lot to look at but the beaches make up for it. Some beaches without anyone else really around. We will definitely be back weather it be our next trip without kids or before over the school holidays sometime. Not as far as Queensland but just as pretty.