Stay: Site 20 Stenhouse Bay camp ground $16.50pn plus day pass $9 senior (or multi pass $44/2 months).
We had a very peaceful night in Ardrossan and began the day with a pastie from the bakery. Feeling fortified we filled up a couple of extra water containers from the tap at the park and headed south. Not far from town was drove up to the Dolomites mine lookout.
Our next stop was at the boat ramp at Port Julia. The jetty had once been important for barley and wheat exports but now is just used for fishing.
We drove through the happening town of Port Vincent, stopping at the lookout over the new marina estate and the town.
The area around Wool Bay was once part of the district’s important lime burning industry. At the old jetty we could get a closer look at an old lime kiln that had been dug into the cliffs.
After a chat we some people fishing on the jetty and a cuppa tea we continued our southerly journey to the ‘heel’ of the Yorke Peninsula driving through the Wattle Point Wind Farm. When it was officially opened in 2005, it was the largest in Australia, consisting of 55 wind turbines over 17.5 square kilometres, at a cost of $180million.
A little further down the road we looked at the Troubridge Hill Lighthouse built from special wedge shaped bricks in 1980, standing at 32 meters in height.
Further down the road we got stuck in a traffic jam.
Then we let down the tyres to 30PSI and then pumped them back up again before hitting the bitumen.
We eventually got to Innes National Park by 2pm in time to purchase our multi 2 month pass and choose a site at Stenhouse Bay for the next couple of nights.
Having settled in at Site 20 we wondered over to Emu Bay admiring the lovely coast line.
A bit further in was the Stenhouse Jetty that was originally built for gypsum transportation.
After a chat with the lone fisherman with our first look at balloon float to catch sharks we returned to Traky…
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