Yorke Peninsular - East...
Adelaide - Port Wakefield - Port Clinton - Price - Ardrossan - Port Julia - Port Vincent - Stansbury
The Route Map
Day 24 - 27th Feb
Adelaide - Port Wakefield - Port Clinton - Price - Ardrossan - Port Julia - Port Vincent - Stansbury.
Today we will do almost the entire east coast of the Yorke Peninsular. So we better get cracking. First stop Port Wakefield for breakfast...
A Port Wakefield local…
Port Clinton...
Old stone building near Port Clinton…
Red-necked Stint…
Common Greenshank…
Next the saltworks at Price...
Price_Salt_Works…
Price_Salt_Works…
Price_Salt_Works…
Mountains of Salt at Price…
Ardrossan is a picture perfect port and holiday village. It has one of the largest grain ports in Australia. Who would guess?...
The Yorke Peninsular is just one giant never ending wheatfield from coast to coast…
Stunning cliffs…
The framed view of Ardrossan…
Lunch beside the jetty at Port Julia...
Port Julia jetty is in the middle of the beautiful panorama…
Smoko in Port Vincent...
Just before Port Vincent is the Hickman Ruin…
A few kilometres further along the highway we find this old tower a remnant of some former industrial complex…
The water tower is the only thing notable about Port Vincent…
Finally we arrive at Stansbury in time for happy hour. The Stansbury tour will have to wait until tomorrow...
Welcome to Stansbury…
Day 25 - 28th Feb
Stansbury - Wool Bay - Edithburgh - Yorketown.
Today from Stansbury we travel further south along the coast...
Stansbury_Water_Tower_Art…
Painted Honeyeater…
First stop Wool Bay and the nearby Port Giles...
Wool_Bay_Jetty…
The old Wool_Bay_Lime_Kiln…
Port_Giles_Ship_Loading…
Port_Giles_Rock_Formation…
Ancient_shells litter the soil surface everywhere along the limestone coast…
Shells on hand for perspective…
Next stop Edithburgh...
Edithburgh_Sign…
Edithburgh_Jetty…
Edithburgh_Jetty_Sculpture…
The view closeup of the amazing metalwork sculpture…
Edithburgh_Sultana_Point…
Edithburgh_Water_Tower…
From here we head inland past a multitude of small salt lakes...
Lake_Fowler_Salt_Lake…
The_Pink_Lake: too dry for pink…
The big ‘Y’ viewing platform at Pink_Lake…
There are so may salt lakes in this area. A few are almost circular…
Fences across salt lakes makes interesting photos…
Another salt lake…
And another…
As always across the limestone plains there are limestone buildings falling into disrepair…
The abundance of limestone rocks lends itself to makeing drystone walls/fences…
