The Yorke Peninsula 6/2 - 8/2

We took the 190km trip to the Yorke Peninsula to stay at Port Vincent. Not expecting it to be busy we didn't book ahead but found the site virtually full of retirees with their caravans and boats. Of course being woken up at 6.30am every morning whilst they all went out to sea wasn't our idea of fun, but the site itself and it's surroundings were very peaceful otherwise.

This is a school PE lesson on Port Vincent's bay just in front of the caravan park. As well as rugby and cricket on the beach they undertook various watersports including canoeing, swimming and wind surfing.



We visited several scenic lookouts such as Pine Point and the 'ochre cliffs' of Ardrossan (below).



We visited Wool Bay, which was originally given it's name because it had a cutting in the cliff just wide enough to roll a bale of wool down to the beach and onto the jetty for transportation.



It has the remains of Lime Kilns built into the cliffs from days gone by.



The peninsula also has a large number of jetties.



As the beach is so close to everyone on Yorke Peninsula there isn't much need for swimming pools but there is a tidal one in the sea at Edithburgh.



Yorketown has about 200 salt lakes surrounding it and it's history was based on the harvesting of those lakes. When the sky is cloudless the lakes glimmer a red-pink to a blinding white but unfortunately we couldn't capture that due to the clouds.



Here are the red rocks at Corny Point where we encountered lots of our friends from earlier in the road trip - the flies. Although the views were stunning we abandoned the idea of a picnic there and ended up driving another 50km to find a more suitable spot.