The Wondrous Yorke Peninsula

A huge ray in Pondalowie Bay, only a metre from shore.

Our campsite at Pondalowie - wonderful place

 

John & Kathie at Inneston Lake - Beautiful turquoise colour is from the gypsum in the water.  Inneston was founded as a mining town, until the depression.  Now just a historic site.

 This is a view of beautiful Pondalowie Bay.  The islands are creatively named - South, Middle and North Islands.  Wedge Island and Chinaman's Hat Island were named for their shapes.

 Mark & Donna were looking to fill jerry cans whenever possible!  You get desperate for a shower long enough to wash your hair!! Especially after a swim.

Our daily visitor - sometimes his friends also came to say hello

Yorke Peninsula  18/19/20/21

After waking on Friday to our first wet morning we travelled from Saddleworth to the Yorke Peninsula.  We drove through teeming rain for the morning and after speaking with some other tourists at morning tea we decided to head for Innes National Park at the toe of the Yorke Peninsula.  The rain stopped by late afternoon and since the girls had once again beaten the boys in five hundred, we were excited to explore the local beach.  Quite a lot of kelp on the beach, the smell of which drove us from exploring right to the tip of the bay.  There were two very big rays that came right up inshore.  It was interesting to see a little fishing village in the middle of this national park.  We have had a visitor to our campsite every day.  It seems to be his domain!  Beautiful ocean scenery in this region – check out the photos.  We also explored historic Inneston township and the nearby lake.  Unfortunately we also tried fishing.... the locals assured us that the bait of choice was cockles.  Lucky for some, but not for us.  It was only when we were leaving that the more successful fishermen shared the fact that they were using a burley containing tuna oil, cat food, curry powder, bread crumbs & bran.  My GULP didn’t stand a chance against their exotic mixture.

We also visited West Cape Lighthouse, Seashell Bay and many other little coves in this area.  It is a place definitely worth visiting.  

Today (Tuesday) we travelled up to Port Pirie, stopping at Port Victoria, Moonta Bay and Port Broughton.

Port Pirie is noted for the lead smelter in the centre of the city.  We are staying in a caravan park on the water and spent the rest of today catching up with the mundane tasks - washing, filling water tanks and enjoying long hot showers.