Day 209 - NW of the foot of Yorke Peninsula

The Yorke Peninsula does not look very big when compared with the Eyre Peninsula but today we drove 273km and saw only the NW portion of the Peninsula's "foot".

It was sunny most of the day but...... the temperature never got above 17 degrees and a howling SW wind kept us company all day.   It seemed like the apparent temperature was around five degrees at times.

That said, we hopped in and out of the car to take in the sights.  There was always a race to see who could get back to the warmth of the car the quickest.

Sights there were aplenty, so many that we could not take them all in.  Some, read "most", were accessible only by dirt roads but the dirt roads were pretty good.  Gone though is the clean car, clean only for one day.

The coast on the northern side of the "foot" is not very spectacular and it was not until we got into the Inness National Park at its SW point that "spectacular" appeared again.  

We drove through miles and miles of wheat and barley fields a we covered the last 80km to get back to the warmth of the caravan at Minlaton.

The photographs that follow are in chronological order.

011114 Romancing in the harbour at Point Turton

011114 Point Turton township

011114 Burners Beach

011114 The Pines - "cliffs" of dried sea grass

011114 A flock of sheep near Corny Beach

011114 Corny Point Lighthouse

011114 South from Corny Point

011114 North from Point Annie

011114 Point Annie

011114 Berry Bay

011114 Waiting for a customer at Marion Bay

011114 Penguin Point at Marion Bay

011114 Willyama Beach near Marion Bay

011114 Marion Bay

011114 Stenhouse Bay

011114 Cable Bay with Cape Spencer in the distance

011114 Cape Spencer Lighthouse

011114 The cliffs to the south of Cape Spencer

011114 The cliffs to the north of Cape Spencer

011114 The wreck of the "Ethyl"

011114 Pondalowie Bay with South, Middle and
North Islands, with West Bay in the foreground

011114 Looking south from West Cape Headland